Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedHenry Farrell: belief
23 Oct 2019 Conversations with Tyler Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
“To the extent that it is true, I think that if one wanted to come up with a half-baked social science theory which might or might not be correct, it might be because the valences of the service are much more about their quasi solidaristic .”
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- 23 Oct 2019
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…Why does Twitter seem to be relatively left-wing politically? I don’t mean the company. I mean the service. Yeah, the service. First thing, I’m taking the statement on faith because I actually haven’t seen any research on this. There must be somebody whose research shows sort of broad left-wing versus right-wing views on Twitter, using NLP or something similar. I haven’t seen that research. To the extent that it is true, I think that if one wanted to come up with a half-baked social science theory which might or might not be correct, it might be because the valences of the service are much more about their quasi solidaristic . . . about creating affirmations of shared values, of shared communities in ways that plausibly work. But then, arguing against myself, I would immediately think the same thing ought to be true of a variety of conservative communities. When I look at my Twitter, my Twitter is certainly much more left-wing, but that is also — But so is mine, right? [laughs]…
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