The Power of Algorithms

Question 1

True or false: Editors controlled information flow

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What should algorithms show us?

Accepted Answer

Different perspectives

Question 3

What is the challenge with filters?

Accepted Answer

Information junk food

Question 4

True or false: Algorithms edit content

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

True or false: Algorithms balance content

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

True or false: Algorithms are transparent

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

What did researchers at Netflix discover?

Accepted Answer

Queue struggle

Question 8

Which news site personalizes content?

Accepted Answer

Yahoo News

Question 9

Who mentioned the squirrel analogy?

Accepted Answer

Mark Zuckerberg

Question 10

True or false: Internet connects us all

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What did the journalist ask Zuckerberg?

Accepted Answer

About news feed

Question 12

Who needs to encode ethics?

Accepted Answer

New gatekeepers

Question 13

Which company personalizes search results?

Accepted Answer

Google

Question 14

True or false: Filter bubbles are visible

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

True or false: Algorithms have ethics

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

True or false: Internet should isolate us

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

What is a filter bubble?

Accepted Answer

Personalized content

Question 18

True or false: Facebook edits your feed

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

What did people notice in 1915?

Accepted Answer

Civic responsibilities

Questions 19