to spread or disperse
it promotes, recommends and disseminates videos in a manner that appears to constantly up the stakes.
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overt (adj.)
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open to view or knowledge
while bots from big search engines and aggregators tend to overtly present themselves as bots...
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deem (v.)
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to hold as an opinion
...including youngsters who deem smartphones a birthright
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delineate (v.)
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to describe or outline with precision
...a person's personality can be more accurately delineated in many regards than it could by even their spouse
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roiled (n.)
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a website or program that collects related items and displays them or links to them
...Adobe's findings are one more indication of how the problem has roiled the fast-changing ad...
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cabal (n.)
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a secret political clique or faction
this is not because a cabal of YouTube engineers is plotting to drive the world off a cliff.
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disputing (v.)
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to argue about; discuss heatedly
...it isn't clear whether a Wikipedia page disputing that theory would even be available yet.
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pejorative (adj.)
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expressing contempt or disapproval
even if his pejorative description was half-joking, his insight was real
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adherence (n.)
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attachment to a person, cause, or belief
...but it's unclear how adherence to such rules will be ensured
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detract (v.)
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to reduce or take away the worth or value of
...smartphones can be addictive distractions that detract from schoolwork...
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bestow (v.)
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to present as a gift
when you decide that it's time to bestow a smartphone on your child, there are ways to set limits
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phishing (v.)
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to try to obtain financial or other confidential info from internet users
...DocuSign admitted that a database of customer email addresses had been breached in a phishing campaign
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obsolete (adj.)
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no longer in general use
...technological advances long ago made our scrawls obsolete as a protector of personal security
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arbiter (n.)
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a person empowered to decide matters at issue
Wojciki said that hatefulness is "more clear" than if something is true or false, and that YouTube doesn't want to be an arbiter of truth
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amble (v.)
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to walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace
...who isn't driven crazy when blocked on the sidewalk by people ambling so s-l-o-w-l-y...
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proliferation (n.)
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rapid increase in numbers or large quantity of something
a YouTube spokesperson told CNBC that the information cues initiative is part of broader efforts to tackle the proliferation of misinformation on the site
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rife (adj.)
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(especially of something undesired or harmful) of common occurrence; full of; widespread
web traffic is rife with bots and non-human traffic
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embroiled (v.)
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to involve in trouble, conflict, or argument
...at least 100 students at a Colorado high school were embroiled in a scandal...
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nexus (n.)
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a connection or series of connections linking two or more things
a more likely explanation has to do with the nexus of artificial intelligence and Google's business model