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From the Ted Talk by Sinan Aral: How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation

Unscramble the Blue Letters

The fourth possible otpion is transparency. We want to know how do Facebook's atgloirhms work. How does the data combine with the algorithms to produce the outcomes that we see? We want them to open the kimono and show us exactly the inner workings of how Facebook is wnkorig. And if we want to know social media's effect on society, we need scientists, researchers and others to have access to this kind of iiamontorfn. But at the same time, we are asking Facebook to lock everything down, to keep all of the data secure.

Open Cloze

The fourth possible ______ is transparency. We want to know how do Facebook's __________ work. How does the data combine with the algorithms to produce the outcomes that we see? We want them to open the kimono and show us exactly the inner workings of how Facebook is _______. And if we want to know social media's effect on society, we need scientists, researchers and others to have access to this kind of ___________. But at the same time, we are asking Facebook to lock everything down, to keep all of the data secure.

Solution

  1. working
  2. algorithms
  3. option
  4. information

Original Text

The fourth possible option is transparency. We want to know how do Facebook's algorithms work. How does the data combine with the algorithms to produce the outcomes that we see? We want them to open the kimono and show us exactly the inner workings of how Facebook is working. And if we want to know social media's effect on society, we need scientists, researchers and others to have access to this kind of information. But at the same time, we are asking Facebook to lock everything down, to keep all of the data secure.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
false news 11
presidential election 4
white house 3
social media 3
true news 3
synthetic media 3
united states 2
fake news 2
news stories 2
false tweets 2
news exhibited 2
exhibited significantly 2
generate synthetic 2
synthetic video 2
artificial intelligence 2
press pass 2
economic motive 2
define truth 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
news exhibited significantly 2
generate synthetic media 2

Important Words

  1. access
  2. algorithms
  3. combine
  4. data
  5. effect
  6. facebook
  7. fourth
  8. information
  9. kimono
  10. kind
  11. lock
  12. open
  13. option
  14. outcomes
  15. produce
  16. researchers
  17. scientists
  18. secure
  19. show
  20. social
  21. society
  22. time
  23. transparency
  24. work
  25. working
  26. workings