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From the Ted Talk by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck: The price of a "clean" internet

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Humans whom we know almost nothing about, because they work in secret. They sign nondisclosure agreements, which prohibit them from talking and sharing what they see on their sreencs and what this work does to them. They are foercd to use code words in order to hide who they work for. They are monitored by private security firms in order to ensure that they don't talk to journalists. And they are tatrhneeed by fines in case they speak. All of this sounds like a wried crime sotry, but it's true. These people eisxt, and they are called content moderators.

Open Cloze

Humans whom we know almost nothing about, because they work in secret. They sign nondisclosure agreements, which prohibit them from talking and sharing what they see on their _______ and what this work does to them. They are ______ to use code words in order to hide who they work for. They are monitored by private security firms in order to ensure that they don't talk to journalists. And they are __________ by fines in case they speak. All of this sounds like a _____ crime _____, but it's true. These people _____, and they are called content moderators.

Solution

  1. story
  2. threatened
  3. exist
  4. weird
  5. forced
  6. screens

Original Text

Humans whom we know almost nothing about, because they work in secret. They sign nondisclosure agreements, which prohibit them from talking and sharing what they see on their screens and what this work does to them. They are forced to use code words in order to hide who they work for. They are monitored by private security firms in order to ensure that they don't talk to journalists. And they are threatened by fines in case they speak. All of this sounds like a weird crime story, but it's true. These people exist, and they are called content moderators.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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content moderators 8
social media 4
delete ignore 3
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civil rights 2
world wide 2
mark zuckerberg 2

Important Words

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