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From the Ted Talk by Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

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So in 2016, I attended rallies of then-candidate Donald Trump to study as a sohlcar the meomvent supporting him. I study social movements, so I was studying it, too. And then I wanted to write something about one of his rallies, so I watehcd it a few tmeis on YouTube. YouTube started recommending to me and autoplaying to me white supremacist veodis in increasing order of extremism. If I watched one, it served up one even more extreme and autoplayed that one, too. If you watch hlaliry Clinton or Bernie Sanders content, YouTube recommends and autoplays conspiracy left, and it goes downhill from there.

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So in 2016, I attended rallies of then-candidate Donald Trump to study as a _______ the ________ supporting him. I study social movements, so I was studying it, too. And then I wanted to write something about one of his rallies, so I _______ it a few _____ on YouTube. YouTube started recommending to me and autoplaying to me white supremacist ______ in increasing order of extremism. If I watched one, it served up one even more extreme and autoplayed that one, too. If you watch _______ Clinton or Bernie Sanders content, YouTube recommends and autoplays conspiracy left, and it goes downhill from there.

Solution

  1. scholar
  2. movement
  3. times
  4. videos
  5. hillary
  6. watched

Original Text

So in 2016, I attended rallies of then-candidate Donald Trump to study as a scholar the movement supporting him. I study social movements, so I was studying it, too. And then I wanted to write something about one of his rallies, so I watched it a few times on YouTube. YouTube started recommending to me and autoplaying to me white supremacist videos in increasing order of extremism. If I watched one, it served up one even more extreme and autoplayed that one, too. If you watch Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders content, YouTube recommends and autoplays conspiracy left, and it goes downhill from there.

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