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From the Ted Talk by Claire Wardle: How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust

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Welcome to one of the central challenges of our time. How can we maintain an inetenrt with freedom of expression at the core, while also ensuring that the content that's being disseminated doesn't cause irreparable harms to our democracies, our communities and to our physical and mnteal well-being? Because we live in the information age, yet the central currency upon which we all depend — iroinftaomn — is no longer deemed entirely trustworthy and, at times, can appear downright dangerous. This is thanks in part to the runaway gtorwh of saicol sharing platforms that allow us to scroll through, where lies and facts sit side by side, but with none of the taadrniiotl sgnials of trustworthiness.

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Welcome to one of the central challenges of our time. How can we maintain an ________ with freedom of expression at the core, while also ensuring that the content that's being disseminated doesn't cause irreparable harms to our democracies, our communities and to our physical and ______ well-being? Because we live in the information age, yet the central currency upon which we all depend — ___________ — is no longer deemed entirely trustworthy and, at times, can appear downright dangerous. This is thanks in part to the runaway ______ of ______ sharing platforms that allow us to scroll through, where lies and facts sit side by side, but with none of the ___________ _______ of trustworthiness.

Solution

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  7. signals

Original Text

Welcome to one of the central challenges of our time. How can we maintain an internet with freedom of expression at the core, while also ensuring that the content that's being disseminated doesn't cause irreparable harms to our democracies, our communities and to our physical and mental well-being? Because we live in the information age, yet the central currency upon which we all depend — information — is no longer deemed entirely trustworthy and, at times, can appear downright dangerous. This is thanks in part to the runaway growth of social sharing platforms that allow us to scroll through, where lies and facts sit side by side, but with none of the traditional signals of trustworthiness.

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