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YouTube has a pattern of recommending right-leaning and Christian videos, even to users who haven’t previously interacted with that kind of content, according to a recent study of the platform ...
Central to the YouTube Automation business model are various streams of income, predominantly anchored by the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). In this program, channels generate revenue through advertisements displayed on their videos, with the income determined by the Cost Per Mille (CPM) metric that indicates the cost advertisers are willing to ...
Algorithmic radicalization is the concept that recommender algorithms on popular social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook drive users toward progressively more extreme content over time, leading to them developing radicalized extremist political views. Algorithms record user interactions, from likes/dislikes to amount of time spent on ...
A 2019 BBC investigation of YouTube searches in ten different languages found that YouTube's algorithm promoted health misinformation, including fake cancer cures. [56] In Brazil, YouTube has been linked to pushing pseudoscientific misinformation on health matters, as well as elevated far-right fringe discourse and conspiracy theories. [57]
YouTube's algorithm recommends right-wing, extremist videos to users — even if they haven't interacted with that content before. YouTube's algorithm pushes right-wing, explicit videos regardless ...
YouTube has taken steps to block certain search terms like "thinspiration," a word used to find footage of emaciated bodies. However, the CCDH study found that such videos still appear in the "Up ...
YouTube's content recommendation algorithm is designed to keep the user engaged as long as possible, which Roose calls the "rabbit hole effect". [5] The podcast features interviews with a variety of people involved with YouTube and the "rabbit hole effect". [6] For instance, in episode four Roose interviews Susan Wojcicki—the CEO of YouTube. [2]
YouTube’s algorithm is recommending videos about disordered eating and weight loss to some young teens, a new study says. YouTube, the social media platform most used by teens, promises to ...