YouTube Recommendations Implicated in Political Radicalization of User

September 1, 2015

YouTube's personalization and recommendation algorithms are accused of contributing to the radicalization of young male users, promoting exposure to far-right extremist ideologies such as neo-Nazism and white supremacy.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.642, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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Alleged deployer: youtube
Alleged developer: youtube
Alleged harmed parties: youtube-young-male-users, youtube-male-users, caleb-cain

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