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Your feed is ranked, not neutral

Personal & Social Development · Responsible Decision-Making · ages 15-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________
  1. What is a feed ranked to do?

    • Hold your attention as long as possible
    • Inform you as fairly as possible
    • Save your battery as much as possible
  2. Who pays a free platform and what is sold?

    • Users pay with monthly fees
    • Advertisers pay for your attention
    • Nobody pays for anything
  3. Provoking posts travel further than careful ones.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Your top post screams about a scandal. What is the wise question?

    • Who has the funniest reply
    • How fast can I share it
    • Did it inform me, or did it hook me
  5. Why does an angry post outrank a careful one?

    • Angry posts are always shorter
    • Outrage wins clicks that train the ranking
    • Careful writers post at midnight
  6. You mute notifications for a week. What should you track?

    • The stock price of the platform
    • Your friends' phone models
    • What changes in your scrolling across the week
  7. Two careful posts flop while one angry post flies. A friend calls it proof people love truth. What is the better reading?

    • Reach measures ranking fit, not truth love
    • Flops prove careful posts lie
    • Flying proves the angry post is true
  8. Mia says viral anger is all the sharers' fault. What is missing?

    • Sharers deserve full blame indeed
    • The ranking pushes provoking posts further by design
    • Angry posts are never shared
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Answer key

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  1. Hold your attention as long as possible · Ranking serves attention, not information.
  2. Advertisers pay for your attention · Ads buy attention, so attention is the product.
  3. True · Outrage wins clicks and clicks steer ranking.
  4. Did it inform me, or did it hook me · Reading against who pays exposes the hook.
  5. Outrage wins clicks that train the ranking · Clicks teach the ranking to show more outrage.
  6. What changes in your scrolling across the week · One changed habit plus a week of notes reveals the effect.
  7. Reach measures ranking fit, not truth love · Read reach against who pays before judging minds.
  8. The ranking pushes provoking posts further by design · People share, but the ranking multiplies the push.
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