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From the Ted Talk by Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
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An example, I think, of how this bad faith gets into our action is our reaction to the phenomenon of fake news. The fake news that spread on the internet during the American presidential eelicton of 2016 was designed to feed into our biases, designed to iatflne our bbubels. But what was really sikitnrg about it was not just that it fooled so many people. What was really striking to me about fake news, the phenomenon, is how qculkiy it itself became the subject of knowledge polarization; so much so, that the very term — the very term — "fake news" now just means: "news story I don't like." That's an example of the bad ftiah towards the truth that I'm talking about.
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An example, I think, of how this bad faith gets into our action is our reaction to the phenomenon of fake news. The fake news that spread on the internet during the American presidential ________ of 2016 was designed to feed into our biases, designed to _______ our _______. But what was really ________ about it was not just that it fooled so many people. What was really striking to me about fake news, the phenomenon, is how _______ it itself became the subject of knowledge polarization; so much so, that the very term — the very term — "fake news" now just means: "news story I don't like." That's an example of the bad _____ towards the truth that I'm talking about.
Solution
- bubbles
- inflate
- election
- quickly
- striking
- faith
Original Text
An example, I think, of how this bad faith gets into our action is our reaction to the phenomenon of fake news. The fake news that spread on the internet during the American presidential election of 2016 was designed to feed into our biases, designed to inflate our bubbles. But what was really striking about it was not just that it fooled so many people. What was really striking to me about fake news, the phenomenon, is how quickly it itself became the subject of knowledge polarization; so much so, that the very term — the very term — "fake news" now just means: "news story I don't like." That's an example of the bad faith towards the truth that I'm talking about.
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