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YouTube's algorithm more likely to recommend users right-wing and religious content, research finds. Victoria Feng. Updated June 18, 2024 at 11:13 AM. Didem Mente.
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 ...
The alt-right pipeline (also called the alt-right rabbit hole) is a proposed conceptual model regarding internet radicalization toward the alt-right movement. It describes a phenomenon in which consuming provocative right-wing political content, such as antifeminist or anti-SJW ideas, gradually increases exposure to the alt-right or similar far-right politics.
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 ...
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 ...
The dead Internet theory's exact origin is difficult to pinpoint. In 2021, a post titled "Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake" was published onto the forum Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe esoteric board by a user named "IlluminatiPirate", [9] claiming to be building on previous posts from the same board and from Wizardchan, [2] and marking the term's spread beyond these initial ...
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.