2018-09-09

Thank you, YouTube!

Thank you, YouTube!

These sorts of accusations suddenly seemed to be everywhere. But none were true. They had come, Mr. Uhle and others suspected, from social media — particularly YouTube.

Mr. Serrato scraped YouTube databases for information on every Chemnitz-related video published this year. He found that the platform’s recommendation system consistently directed people toward extremist videos on the riots — then on to far-right videos on other subjects.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html

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