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77 // Writing on the internet with Francesco Di Lorenzo

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The Importance of Twitter for the Information Synthesis

The best place for synthesis on complex topics that are contentious is literally cartoon savvy Twitter accounts. I think even reaching back to Friendster which might have been the first social network that I ever participated in and people started creating non people accounts, you know what today we might call bots or brand accounts,. anything that's not a person. And so it's sort of maybe always in the platform makers interest to basically have less of that or remove the amount of entity. In a way it's what made this bot problem a bit intractable the fact that the platform supports actively supports this, still known most accounts that you can truly identify.

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