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From the Ted Talk by Yasmin Green: How technology can fight extremism and online harassment

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When I started _______ at Google in 2006, Facebook was just a two-year-old, and Twitter hadn't yet been born. And I was in absolute awe of the ________ and all of its promise to make us closer and smarter and more free. But as we were doing the inspiring work of building search engines and video-sharing sites and ______ networks, criminals, _________ and terrorists were figuring out how to use those same platforms against us. And we didn't have the foresight to stop them. Over the last few years, geopolitical forces have come online to wreak _____. And in response, ______ supported a few colleagues and me to set up a new _____ called Jigsaw, with a mandate to make people safer from threats like _______ extremism, censorship, persecution — _______ that feel very personal to me because I was born in Iran, and I left in the aftermath of a violent revolution. But I've come to realize that even if we had all of the resources of all of the technology companies in the world, we'd still fail if we overlooked one ________ ingredient: the human experiences of the victims and ____________ of those threats.

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Original Text

When I started working at Google in 2006, Facebook was just a two-year-old, and Twitter hadn't yet been born. And I was in absolute awe of the internet and all of its promise to make us closer and smarter and more free. But as we were doing the inspiring work of building search engines and video-sharing sites and social networks, criminals, dictators and terrorists were figuring out how to use those same platforms against us. And we didn't have the foresight to stop them. Over the last few years, geopolitical forces have come online to wreak havoc. And in response, Google supported a few colleagues and me to set up a new group called Jigsaw, with a mandate to make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship, persecution — threats that feel very personal to me because I was born in Iran, and I left in the aftermath of a violent revolution. But I've come to realize that even if we had all of the resources of all of the technology companies in the world, we'd still fail if we overlooked one critical ingredient: the human experiences of the victims and perpetrators of those threats.

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