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From the Ted Talk by Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


Mark __________, a journalist was asking him a question about the news feed. And the journalist was asking him, "Why is this so important?" And Zuckerberg said, "A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in ______." And I want to talk about what a Web based on that idea of relevance might look like.

So when I was _______ up in a really rural area in Maine, the Internet meant something very different to me. It meant a connection to the world. It meant something that would connect us all together. And I was sure that it was going to be _____ for democracy and for our society. But there's this shift in how ___________ is flowing online, and it's invisible. And if we don't pay _________ to it, it could be a real _______. So I first _______ this in a place I _____ a lot of time — my Facebook page. I'm progressive, politically — big ________ — but I've always gone out of my way to meet conservatives. I like hearing what they're thinking about; I like seeing what they link to; I like learning a thing or two. And so I was _________ when I noticed one day that the conservatives had disappeared from my Facebook feed. And what it turned out was going on was that Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually, I was clicking more on my _______ friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

Solution


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  4. africa
  5. growing
  6. noticed
  7. liberal
  8. surprised
  9. attention
  10. spend
  11. surprise
  12. great

Original Text


Mark Zuckerberg, a journalist was asking him a question about the news feed. And the journalist was asking him, "Why is this so important?" And Zuckerberg said, "A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." And I want to talk about what a Web based on that idea of relevance might look like.

So when I was growing up in a really rural area in Maine, the Internet meant something very different to me. It meant a connection to the world. It meant something that would connect us all together. And I was sure that it was going to be great for democracy and for our society. But there's this shift in how information is flowing online, and it's invisible. And if we don't pay attention to it, it could be a real problem. So I first noticed this in a place I spend a lot of time — my Facebook page. I'm progressive, politically — big surprise — but I've always gone out of my way to meet conservatives. I like hearing what they're thinking about; I like seeing what they link to; I like learning a thing or two. And so I was surprised when I noticed one day that the conservatives had disappeared from my Facebook feed. And what it turned out was going on was that Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually, I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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