Big Brother is Watching
This author wrote the 1949 novel "1984," which predicted a future surveillance state.
This social media platform was the subject of a study analyzing over 4.5 million tweets about fake news.
What is Twitter?
This is the term for when speech, writing, or art is restricted or suppressed by an authority.
What is censorship?
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" was burned because the Drake School Board objected to this characteristic of the novel's language.
What is obscene language?
The term for when a government makes laws limiting what people can say, write, or create.
What is censorship?
The year the reality TV show "Big Brother" premiered, featuring contestants monitored by cameras in their house.
What is 2000?
Fake news stories were approximately this much more likely to be retweeted than real news stories.
What is 70%
This type of censorship is often justified to protect national security during conflicts.
What is military censorship?
The month and year when Kurt Vonnegut wrote his letter to Mr. McCarthy of the Drake School Board.
What is November 1973?
This type of censorship occurs when a government hides military information to prevent enemies from learning strategic plans.
What is military censorship?
These devices are ubiquitous in modern society, recording people's activities at traffic lights, stores, banks, and libraries.
What is surveillance cameras?
These computer programs that pretend to be human were initially suspected of spreading most fake news online.
What are bots?
This amendment in the U.S. is frequently cited in debates over government limits on speech.
The first ammendment
During this conflict, Vonnegut served as a combat infantry veteran and received a Purple Heart.
What is World War II
This famous scientist was silenced by the Catholic Church for challenging the Church's beliefs about astronomy.
Who is Galileo?
This government agency is responsible for homeland security and has the ability to survey personal information.
The agency responsible for homeland securities (or something close to this answer)
This is the approximate difference in reach between the largest fake news retweet network and the largest true news retweet network.
What is approximately 45,400 additional users? Somewhere close gets is right
This form occurs when powerful private entities limit or discourage certain viewpoints on their platforms or in workplaces.
What is corporate censorship or censorship in the workplace?
According to Vonnegut, this type of wrongdoing causes real harm to young people, more so than coarse language in books.
What are evil deeds and lying?
This type of censorship involves leaders stopping people from expressing opposing views in order to stay in power and control information.
What is political censorship
According to the article, this freedom proves that our society has not yet become a totalitarian state like Orwell's 1984.
What is the freedom to express opinions about the government and read dystopian fiction without fear of retribution?
This MIT researcher led the team that collected and analyzed 126,000 tweet cascades centered on approximately 2,400 news stories.
This is the slippery effect where fear of punishment or backlash causes people to silence themselves.
What is the chilling effect?
The total number of children Vonnegut had raised by the time he wrote his letter to Mr. McCarthy.
What is 6 - 3 biological and 3 adopted
This is the consequence of a government censoring criticism to maintain control, as demonstrated by the Soviet Union's treatment of Communist Party critics.
What is the suppression of free speech and thought?