Max Fisher

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@ufmg @BKCHarvard @virgilioalmeida The @BKCHarvard study found YouTube's algorithm over & over redirecting users toward far-right and conspiracy videos. Crucially, the algo is linking the channels together, creating an ecosystem where none had existed. Its pathways just happen to be ideal radicalization vectors. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2019

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@ufmg @BKCHarvard The @ufmg @virgilioalmeida study found that, just as YouTube installed its new algorithm, pro-Bolsonaro channels saw their reach explode. And ***comments sitewide*** suddenly shifted in favor of Bolsonaro + Bolsonaro-promoted conspiracies. The platform was shaping user sentiment. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2019

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@ufmg @BKCHarvard @virgilioalmeida It’s not about any political agenda at YouTube. Incremental extremism — the rabbit hole — is just what works. But it goes beyond indulging preexisting impulses. It trains users to have them. Much like the child sexualization ring we found during reporting: https://t.co/G7gO1CC7Ss — PolitiTweet.org

YouTube’s algorithm has been curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog of semi-nude kids, we found.… https://t.co/x2Igs2wJOh

Posted Aug. 12, 2019