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          1. If I see one more "This election is Facebook's fault" thinkpiece I might spontaneously combust. Could you any more miss the point?
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          Facebook is a tool for more efficiently deciding what content you see. The problem isn't "how", but "what" they want to see.
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        There are no excuses. No one got tricked into voting for Trump. Even his biggest supporters were *aware* of the litany of allegations...
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      ... people saw what they wanted to see and voted how they wanted to vote. The media's failure was in the primaries...
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    ... We waited too long to do the work we did and we also created a mobilizable trend. But ...
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      Even though we turned covering Trump into a profit motive; Trump voters knew who they were voting for. It was unavoidable. They knew.
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        If you want to point fingers for the state of the election, look to early 2016 media choices, economics of journalism, the people who voted
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          Looking there is where you will find understanding, motive, interest, fear, avarice, love and hate. Those things don't exist in an algorithm
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            Do useful reporting about the people who voted, the communities they are in, the way they think. Don't try and shove blame on something else
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              This election is on us: the media, electorate, politicians. Americans. Humans. Don't you dare lessen the weight by passing it off to a robot
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