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From the Ted Talk by Claire Wardle: How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So I'd like to explain three interlocking issues that make this so cleopmx and then think about some ways we can consider these challenges. First, we just don't have a rational relationship to information, we have an emotional one. It's just not true that more facts will make everything OK, because the algorithms that determine what content we see, well, they're designed to raerwd our emotional responses. And when we're fearful, oversimplified narratives, conspiratorial eaatloxninps and language that demonizes others is far more effective. And besides, many of these companies, their bseisuns model is attached to attention, which means these algorithms will always be skeewd towards emotion.

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So I'd like to explain three interlocking issues that make this so _______ and then think about some ways we can consider these challenges. First, we just don't have a rational relationship to information, we have an emotional one. It's just not true that more facts will make everything OK, because the algorithms that determine what content we see, well, they're designed to ______ our emotional responses. And when we're fearful, oversimplified narratives, conspiratorial ____________ and language that demonizes others is far more effective. And besides, many of these companies, their ________ model is attached to attention, which means these algorithms will always be ______ towards emotion.

Solution


  1. complex
  2. reward
  3. skewed
  4. business
  5. explanations

Original Text


So I'd like to explain three interlocking issues that make this so complex and then think about some ways we can consider these challenges. First, we just don't have a rational relationship to information, we have an emotional one. It's just not true that more facts will make everything OK, because the algorithms that determine what content we see, well, they're designed to reward our emotional responses. And when we're fearful, oversimplified narratives, conspiratorial explanations and language that demonizes others is far more effective. And besides, many of these companies, their business model is attached to attention, which means these algorithms will always be skewed towards emotion.

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  31. reward
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