Algorithms
This is a formula or set of computer instructions used by social media apps to decide what content to show you on your feed.
An Algorithm
This term describes an online space where you are only served posts, videos, and memes that support the beliefs you already have.
An Echo Chamber (or filter bubble).
A California jury recently ordered Meta and Google to pay a young woman this much money because their apps harmed her during childhood.
$6 Million
Created by OpenAI, this viral chatbot uses complex math to predict the next word and can write thousands of words of "plausible BS" in minutes.
ChatGPT
This media literacy strategy involves opening up a bunch of tabs on your computer to see what other credible sources are saying about a topic.
Lateral Reading
Companies track your age, what you click on, and how long you watch a video in order to collect ________, which they use to make predictions about you.
Data
If you only see stuff you agree with, you are less likely to be critical of false information; a psychological trap known as __________.
Confirmation Bias
During the trial, lawyers argued that features like endless scrolling, constant notifications, and beauty filters make social media apps act like a digital ________.
Casino
You cannot trust ChatGPT to provide accurate links for research because it does not have the ability to ___________.
Provide sources
If you see a post that is clearly trying to gain traction through controversy or making people angry, you should use this strategy by simply refusing to interact with it.
Critical ignoring
Social media companies design algorithms to keep you on their app for as long as possible so they can make money doing what?
Showing ads and/or selling data.
While echo chambers are dangerous for politics, the host noted they are harmless and even helpful if you use them to connect with people who share innocent hobbies, such as what?
Knitting
To get around the law that usually protects tech companies from what users post, lawyers successfully argued that the apps themselves should be classified as _______ products.
defective products
If someone wanted to create a highly believable fake news article, they could use ChatGPT for the text and use this other OpenAI tool to generate fake pictures to match.
DALL-E
Before liking and sharing a post, you should always ask yourself these three critical questions. (Must name at least two!)
1) Who is behind the information?
2) What is the evidence?
3) What do other sources say?
Because algorithms are programmed to amplify posts with the most likes, comments, and shares, they often accidentally spread what dangerous type of content?
Misinformation (lies or fake news)
In a MediaWise experiment, it took exactly this amount of time for a brand new Twitter account to become completely trapped in a political echo chamber.
10 minutes
Internal documents from Meta proved they were trying to hook younger users early by targeting what age group, even though you must be 13 to have an account?
Tweens (10-12 year olds)
A Princeton student created a tool to detect AI essays by looking for what key difference between human writing and machine writing?
human writing is more unpredictable OR AI writing is too repetitive.
According to the video, one creative way a TikTok user successfully broke out of his own echo chamber was by doing this.
Creating a separate/second account to view conservative news (and sharing it to his main account)
According to an expert from Wired, doing this to every single post you see is a clever strategy to confuse a new account's algorithm.
Liking everything
The host warns that getting trapped in an echo chamber can severely distort your understanding of reality because it makes it much harder for you to practice __________, a critical thinking skill.
Considering opposing points of view.
The California lawsuit against Meta is considered a "test case" and is heavily compared to the famous 1990s lawsuits that forced what industry to stop advertising to teenagers?
The cigarette (or tobacco) industry
To help teachers identify if an essay was written by AI in the future, developers are trying to hide a special sequence of letters spread throughout the text, a security process known as ________.
Watermarking
By deliberately following a diverse range of left-leaning and right-leaning news sites, you are protecting yourself from algorithms by actively ensuring you are exposed to different _____________.
Perspectives