[ExI] youtube a radicalizer

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 16:00:52 UTC 2018


In the NYT

The journalist created two accounts:  one in which she viewed liberal
videos, the other, conservative.

The Youtube algorithm recommended videos that were more radical than the
ones she viewed:

After viewing Trump rallies, she was recommended white supremacy ones.

After viewing Clinton and Sanders, she got recommendations alluding to a
conspiracy in gov. that was behind the towers attack. (this is liberal?)

After viewing videos about vegetarianism, she got ones about vegans.

After viewing jogging, she got marathons.

Quite a consistent pattern.

The idea behind the algorithm must be that keeping on viewing Youtube must
depend on interest level, and people are more interested in the radical
ideas than more moderate ones.

The media itself is radicalizing.  I don't have to tell you that someone at
Google knows something about psychology.

bill w
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