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From the Ted Talk by Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Well, the good news is that technology is changing, and it could change for the better. And that's, in fact, why I srttaed aidellss.com — to craete technologies and services to free us from these filter bubbles. The very first thing we did was create technology that identifies bias, so we could show different perspectives side by side to free us from the fetlir bubbles of news media. And then I met Joan.

JB: So I met John outside of wnoshagtin, DC, with an idealistic group of cross-partisan bridge builders, and we wanted to re-weave the fabric of our communities. We believe that our differences can be a stenrgth, that our values can be crmametnoiply and that we have to overcome the fight so that we can honor everyone's values and not lose any of our own. I went for this wofedunrl walk with John, where I started learning about the work he was doing to pierce the filter bubble. It was powerful; it was brilliant. Living in separate nrtaeiarvs is not good. We can't even have a conversation or do collaborative problem-solving when we don't sarhe the same facts.

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Well, the good news is that technology is changing, and it could change for the better. And that's, in fact, why I _______ ________.com — to ______ technologies and services to free us from these filter bubbles. The very first thing we did was create technology that identifies bias, so we could show different perspectives side by side to free us from the ______ bubbles of news media. And then I met Joan.

JB: So I met John outside of __________, DC, with an idealistic group of cross-partisan bridge builders, and we wanted to re-weave the fabric of our communities. We believe that our differences can be a ________, that our values can be _____________ and that we have to overcome the fight so that we can honor everyone's values and not lose any of our own. I went for this _________ walk with John, where I started learning about the work he was doing to pierce the filter bubble. It was powerful; it was brilliant. Living in separate __________ is not good. We can't even have a conversation or do collaborative problem-solving when we don't _____ the same facts.

Solution


  1. washington
  2. complimentary
  3. create
  4. filter
  5. wonderful
  6. narratives
  7. started
  8. share
  9. strength
  10. allsides

Original Text


Well, the good news is that technology is changing, and it could change for the better. And that's, in fact, why I started AllSides.com — to create technologies and services to free us from these filter bubbles. The very first thing we did was create technology that identifies bias, so we could show different perspectives side by side to free us from the filter bubbles of news media. And then I met Joan.

JB: So I met John outside of Washington, DC, with an idealistic group of cross-partisan bridge builders, and we wanted to re-weave the fabric of our communities. We believe that our differences can be a strength, that our values can be complimentary and that we have to overcome the fight so that we can honor everyone's values and not lose any of our own. I went for this wonderful walk with John, where I started learning about the work he was doing to pierce the filter bubble. It was powerful; it was brilliant. Living in separate narratives is not good. We can't even have a conversation or do collaborative problem-solving when we don't share the same facts.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
filter bubbles 4
progressive area 2


Important Words


  1. allsides
  2. bias
  3. bridge
  4. brilliant
  5. bubble
  6. bubbles
  7. builders
  8. change
  9. changing
  10. collaborative
  11. communities
  12. complimentary
  13. conversation
  14. create
  15. dc
  16. differences
  17. fabric
  18. fact
  19. facts
  20. fight
  21. filter
  22. free
  23. good
  24. group
  25. honor
  26. idealistic
  27. identifies
  28. joan
  29. john
  30. learning
  31. living
  32. lose
  33. media
  34. met
  35. narratives
  36. news
  37. overcome
  38. perspectives
  39. pierce
  40. separate
  41. services
  42. share
  43. show
  44. side
  45. started
  46. strength
  47. technologies
  48. technology
  49. values
  50. walk
  51. wanted
  52. washington
  53. wonderful
  54. work