Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by RNCTX on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:05AM
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Social networks are also gamed.
Since Twitter is their preferred platform, go put the activity of journalist Twitter accounts into a relational DB and start searching for who always boosts who. You'll find patterns. Of course there's nothing inherently wrong with this, but at the end of the day I don't need to know what a dozen NY Times journos think of a NY Times oped which is clearly written in bad faith, pushing a false narrative about a particular news event.
Non-gameable ultimately means people who influence the results can have no monetary interest in the results.
Since Twitter is their preferred platform, go put the activity of journalist Twitter accounts into a relational DB and start searching for who always boosts who. You'll find patterns. Of course there's nothing inherently wrong with this, but at the end of the day I don't need to know what a dozen NY Times journos think of a NY Times oped which is clearly written in bad faith, pushing a false narrative about a particular news event.
Non-gameable ultimately means people who influence the results can have no monetary interest in the results.
example:
Twitter thread...
https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/1263208982614814722
...vs reality...
https://wearyourvoicemag.com/jia-tolentino-parents-teachers-...