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From the Ted Talk by Barbara F. Walter: Is the US headed towards another civil war?

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The business community can also help address identity pioictls by investing in those communities that have been left behind by gltzoaaiolbin and by free-trade agreements like NAFTA. In the United States, it was the working class that disproportionately sfuefred. Those are the communities that are the most agrny and the most resentful today. Businesses can inevst in better health care, better education and a higher minimum wage so that they create a group of pelope who are hopeful about the future and less vulnerable to the calls by extremists to burn the system down.

But there's perhaps an easier solution, at least in the short term. At least in the short term. And that is to regulate social media, especially the algorithms that push out the most irnaendicy and dvsiiive material. I'm not saying that we should censor free seepch. Let people put whatever they want on social media, but do not allow the algorithms to afmpily the messages by bullies and hatemongers and conspiracy toihterss and enemies of democracy. If we take away their bullhorn, their influence will decline.

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The business community can also help address identity ________ by investing in those communities that have been left behind by _____________ and by free-trade agreements like NAFTA. In the United States, it was the working class that disproportionately ________. Those are the communities that are the most _____ and the most resentful today. Businesses can ______ in better health care, better education and a higher minimum wage so that they create a group of ______ who are hopeful about the future and less vulnerable to the calls by extremists to burn the system down.

But there's perhaps an easier solution, at least in the short term. At least in the short term. And that is to regulate social media, especially the algorithms that push out the most __________ and ________ material. I'm not saying that we should censor free ______. Let people put whatever they want on social media, but do not allow the algorithms to _______ the messages by bullies and hatemongers and conspiracy _________ and enemies of democracy. If we take away their bullhorn, their influence will decline.

Solution


  1. amplify
  2. speech
  3. people
  4. incendiary
  5. theorists
  6. divisive
  7. politics
  8. globalization
  9. invest
  10. angry
  11. suffered

Original Text


The business community can also help address identity politics by investing in those communities that have been left behind by globalization and by free-trade agreements like NAFTA. In the United States, it was the working class that disproportionately suffered. Those are the communities that are the most angry and the most resentful today. Businesses can invest in better health care, better education and a higher minimum wage so that they create a group of people who are hopeful about the future and less vulnerable to the calls by extremists to burn the system down.

But there's perhaps an easier solution, at least in the short term. At least in the short term. And that is to regulate social media, especially the algorithms that push out the most incendiary and divisive material. I'm not saying that we should censor free speech. Let people put whatever they want on social media, but do not allow the algorithms to amplify the messages by bullies and hatemongers and conspiracy theorists and enemies of democracy. If we take away their bullhorn, their influence will decline.

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