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From the Ted Talk by Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online

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Sometimes the search for truth, though, is a little bit less flippant, and it has much gateerr consequences. Syria has been really interesting for us, because obviously a lot of the time you're trying to debunk stuff that can be pnoletlatiy war cmire evidence, so this is where ybouute actually becomes the most important rsepritooy of information about what's going on in the world.

So this video, I'm not going to show you the whole thing, because it's quite gruesome, but you'll hear some of the sounds. This is from Hama. Video: (Shouting) And what this video shows, when you wtach the whole thing through, is bloody bodies being taken out of a pickup turck and thrown off a bridge. The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers' biodes off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was.

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Sometimes the search for truth, though, is a little bit less flippant, and it has much _______ consequences. Syria has been really interesting for us, because obviously a lot of the time you're trying to debunk stuff that can be ___________ war _____ evidence, so this is where _______ actually becomes the most important __________ of information about what's going on in the world.

So this video, I'm not going to show you the whole thing, because it's quite gruesome, but you'll hear some of the sounds. This is from Hama. Video: (Shouting) And what this video shows, when you _____ the whole thing through, is bloody bodies being taken out of a pickup _____ and thrown off a bridge. The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers' ______ off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was.

Solution


  1. crime
  2. repository
  3. youtube
  4. watch
  5. greater
  6. potentially
  7. bodies
  8. truck

Original Text


Sometimes the search for truth, though, is a little bit less flippant, and it has much greater consequences. Syria has been really interesting for us, because obviously a lot of the time you're trying to debunk stuff that can be potentially war crime evidence, so this is where YouTube actually becomes the most important repository of information about what's going on in the world.

So this video, I'm not going to show you the whole thing, because it's quite gruesome, but you'll hear some of the sounds. This is from Hama. Video: (Shouting) And what this video shows, when you watch the whole thing through, is bloody bodies being taken out of a pickup truck and thrown off a bridge. The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers' bodies off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was.

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