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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]
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Though viewership of far-right videos peaked in 2017—before YouTube's 2019 algorithm changes—through at least 2020 YouTube remained the only major social networking platform that was more popular among right-leaning users. [97] In 2019–2020, mainstream conservatives fueled most growth in both video production and viewership. [97]
YouTube would give free access to its users, the more users, the more profit it can potentially make because it can in principle increase advertisement rates and will gain further interest of advertisers. [339] YouTube would sell its audience that it gains by free access to its advertising customers. [339]: 181