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From the Ted Talk by Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

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So for the last year, I've been working with Dr. _____ Stroud at the University of Texas, ______. We've ______ to sociologists and political scientists and philosophers to try to answer this ________. And at first we asked, "If you were _______ or Facebook and trying to rank content for democracy rather than for ad clicks or engagement, what might that look like?" But then we realized, this sort of suggests that this is an information problem or a content problem. And for us, the ________ crisis is a people problem. It's a _______ about the emergent weird things that happen when large groups of people get together. And so we turned to another, older idea.

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Original Text


So for the last year, I've been working with Dr. Talia Stroud at the University of Texas, Austin. We've talked to sociologists and political scientists and philosophers to try to answer this question. And at first we asked, "If you were Twitter or Facebook and trying to rank content for democracy rather than for ad clicks or engagement, what might that look like?" But then we realized, this sort of suggests that this is an information problem or a content problem. And for us, the platform crisis is a people problem. It's a problem about the emergent weird things that happen when large groups of people get together. And so we turned to another, older idea.

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