New study of YouTube finds “a large percentage of users who consume Alt-right content now consumed Alt-lite and I.D.W. content in the past.”
Which is exactly what @beccalew predicted a year ago.https://twitter.com/ebalgord/status/1177059441536991232 …
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Replying to @AntiFashGordon @beccalew
Mark Ledwich Retweeted Mark Ledwich
That part of the abstract is misleading because of alt-lite counts for the vast majority of that flow. Many other issues I show in this threadhttps://twitter.com/mark_ledwich/status/1166184837679464449?s=20 …
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Mark Ledwich @mark_ledwich1/ The “Auditing Radicalization Pathways” study is worthwhile looking at. https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08313 They use comments to correlate users pathways across time. This is clever and it's a great way to get at the true movement of viewers between channels. However...Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes -
Replying to @mark_ledwich @beccalew
when you were a kid, did you know you were gonna be “Scott Adams but with less charisma” or did that just happen
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also, holy shit, you were on the “if Greta Thunberg has opinions, then i should get to have sex with her” asshole’s podcast two days ago, lmaopic.twitter.com/om51zyPFIT
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do you have methodological criticisms of yr buddy’s formulationpic.twitter.com/1o61F5Aa7f
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So what you're saying is that you can't counter his arguments so you have to resort to ad hominem.
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no, it means that i don’t give a shit about debating some disingenuous reply guy who wants to defend Sargon of Akkad because fuck anyone who thinks “gamer” is a valid identitypic.twitter.com/K0SAh9HM39
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