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Wow Google is all in with the conservative Federalist Society which engineered the multi-decade effort to foster judges like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Facebook vice-president was in DC hearings to personally support Kavanaugh. Silicon Valley is so “liberal.”🙄
Facebook’s top sites are often hyper-partisan right-wing sites and also.. this. All the complaining you hear about “liberal bias” in Silicon Valley is just strategic playing the referees—who are pretty easy to play, apparently. H/t @kevinroose https://t.co/vpPZXzir7q
No that’s not the structure of my argument. Facebook and YouTube have been great for Breitbart and Trump for example—it’s that success that moved Fox closer to them. Tech platforms are biased towards the hyper-partisan and Breitbart plays that better.
Worth noting that @Google is the only tech company that's a top-tier supporter of the Federalist Society.
— McVillain (@mcmillen) October 7, 2018
It's absolutely shameful, but unfortunately most employees don't care. pic.twitter.com/3PJNWevq1s
Facebook’s top sites are often hyper-partisan right-wing sites and also.. this. All the complaining you hear about “liberal bias” in Silicon Valley is just strategic playing the referees—who are pretty easy to play, apparently. H/t @kevinroose https://t.co/vpPZXzir7q
No that’s not the structure of my argument. Facebook and YouTube have been great for Breitbart and Trump for example—it’s that success that moved Fox closer to them. Tech platforms are biased towards the hyper-partisan and Breitbart plays that better.
Fox News is the most watched cable news, ergo cable is biased. @jayrosen_nyu is trying a similar argument.
— Alcofribas (@open_mix) October 7, 2018
The WHO just updated its page on how COVID-19 transmits. Those few sentences on aerosols represent one of the most crucial scientific advances of the pandemic. My NYT piece on the century-long history of the error, the year of delay—and what it means now. https://t.co/B9y2Mf6LC7
This history goes back to scientists trying to get germ theory accepted and fighting (incorrect) folk theories of miasma—infection via stinky air—and they made some mistakes themselves along the way. Some froze into dogma. It took until this pandemic to, finally, start fixing it.
It's a huge advance, not a minor change. It explains so much of what went wrong and how to do better. We started with an incorrect theory of how COVID-19 transmits. One key error goes back a century. And it took a pandemic year to get to even this point. https://t.co/B9y2Mf6LC7
It's a long piece—and honestly, maybe I have maybe 10% of just the narrative in there, and maybe 2% of the history—let alone the fascinating science. I'm co-author on this peer-reviewed piece in The Lancet that explains some scientific details/issues. https://t.co/xPnnWfo75E
It is *really* important for the WHO, the CDC and all the public health agencies to publicize this and lead because there are also a lot of misconceptions—some stemming from the same errors. Masks and distance are still important, for example, but need more context to evaluate.
This history goes back to scientists trying to get germ theory accepted and fighting (incorrect) folk theories of miasma—infection via stinky air—and they made some mistakes themselves along the way. Some froze into dogma. It took until this pandemic to, finally, start fixing it.
It's a huge advance, not a minor change. It explains so much of what went wrong and how to do better. We started with an incorrect theory of how COVID-19 transmits. One key error goes back a century. And it took a pandemic year to get to even this point. https://t.co/B9y2Mf6LC7
It's a long piece—and honestly, maybe I have maybe 10% of just the narrative in there, and maybe 2% of the history—let alone the fascinating science. I'm co-author on this peer-reviewed piece in The Lancet that explains some scientific details/issues. https://t.co/xPnnWfo75E
It is *really* important for the WHO, the CDC and all the public health agencies to publicize this and lead because there are also a lot of misconceptions—some stemming from the same errors. Masks and distance are still important, for example, but need more context to evaluate.