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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Hancock: The future of lying

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Now, the Sock Puppet, on the other hand, is a totally different animal. The sock puppet isn't about ambiguity, per se. It's about identity. Let me give you a very recent example, as in, like, last week. Here's R.J. elolry, best-seller author in Britain. Here's one of his bestselling books. Here's a reviewer online, on Amazon. My favorite, by Nicodemus jnoes, is, "Whatever else it might do, it will touch your soul." And of course, you might suspect that ndciuoems Jones is R.J. Ellory. He worte very, very positive reviews about himself. Surprise, surprise.

Now this Sock Puppet stuff isn't actually that new. Walt Whitman also did this back in the day, before there was Internet technology. Sock pueppt becomes interesting when we get to scale, which is the damoin of the cinsehe Water Army. Chinese Water Army refers to thousands of poelpe in China that are paid small anutoms of money to produce content. It could be reviews. It could be ppndroaaga. The government hires these people, companies hire them, all over the place. In North America, we call this Astroturfing, and asuitrfonrtg is very common now. There's a lot of concerns about it. We see this especially with product reviews, book reviews, everything from hotels to whether that toaster is a good tsteaor or not.

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Now, the Sock Puppet, on the other hand, is a totally different animal. The sock puppet isn't about ambiguity, per se. It's about identity. Let me give you a very recent example, as in, like, last week. Here's R.J. ______, best-seller author in Britain. Here's one of his bestselling books. Here's a reviewer online, on Amazon. My favorite, by Nicodemus _____, is, "Whatever else it might do, it will touch your soul." And of course, you might suspect that _________ Jones is R.J. Ellory. He _____ very, very positive reviews about himself. Surprise, surprise.

Now this Sock Puppet stuff isn't actually that new. Walt Whitman also did this back in the day, before there was Internet technology. Sock ______ becomes interesting when we get to scale, which is the ______ of the _______ Water Army. Chinese Water Army refers to thousands of ______ in China that are paid small _______ of money to produce content. It could be reviews. It could be __________. The government hires these people, companies hire them, all over the place. In North America, we call this Astroturfing, and ____________ is very common now. There's a lot of concerns about it. We see this especially with product reviews, book reviews, everything from hotels to whether that toaster is a good _______ or not.

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  2. people
  3. jones
  4. nicodemus
  5. puppet
  6. astroturfing
  7. toaster
  8. domain
  9. propaganda
  10. chinese
  11. amounts
  12. wrote

Original Text


Now, the Sock Puppet, on the other hand, is a totally different animal. The sock puppet isn't about ambiguity, per se. It's about identity. Let me give you a very recent example, as in, like, last week. Here's R.J. Ellory, best-seller author in Britain. Here's one of his bestselling books. Here's a reviewer online, on Amazon. My favorite, by Nicodemus Jones, is, "Whatever else it might do, it will touch your soul." And of course, you might suspect that Nicodemus Jones is R.J. Ellory. He wrote very, very positive reviews about himself. Surprise, surprise.

Now this Sock Puppet stuff isn't actually that new. Walt Whitman also did this back in the day, before there was Internet technology. Sock Puppet becomes interesting when we get to scale, which is the domain of the Chinese Water Army. Chinese Water Army refers to thousands of people in China that are paid small amounts of money to produce content. It could be reviews. It could be propaganda. The government hires these people, companies hire them, all over the place. In North America, we call this Astroturfing, and Astroturfing is very common now. There's a lot of concerns about it. We see this especially with product reviews, book reviews, everything from hotels to whether that toaster is a good toaster or not.

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