Max FisherOvjeren akaunt

@Max_Fisher

Writer for The Interpreter, a column exploring the ideas and context behind major world events.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2008.

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    Now live: Our monthslong project on YouTube radicalization. As YouTube diverts more and more users down far-right rabbitholes, could its algorithm, in a way, radicalize an entire society? To find out, we went to YouTube's 2nd-largest market: Brazil.

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  2. Enormously helpful & illuminating on the likely long-term scenarios for coronavirus. Probably the likeliest: it goes pandemic thru the spring, then becomes just another seasonal, flu-like virus.

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  3. 29. sij

    I don't think people have internalized the degree to which this "peace plan" is a declaration that the US no longer sees its role as outside mediator of Israel-Palestine conflict, but as active partisan, on behalf of a hardline rightwing Israeli position

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  4. 3. sij

    One point to stress, though: Iran gets talked about in the US primarily as a nefarious adversary, but it is also a country of 80-plus million. Regular people, families, already suffering under sanctions. The greatest costs of war always fall on civilians. Worth keeping in mind.

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  5. 3. sij

    Iran’s nuclear program is partial and appears dormant. Still, the mere possibility of breakout creates an escalatory pull. US might feel pressure to strike nuclear infrastructure early. Iran might feel pressure to restart development while it still can.

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  6. 3. sij

    Iran has a network of allies and proxies. It has demonstrated assymetric capabilities. But its conventional power is significant as well. I reported last year on its partial but meaningful progress toward missiles that could reach well beyond the Mid East.

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  7. 3. sij

    This is not Saddam’s half-decomposed Iraq or some bunch of North Vietnamese irregulars. Iran is a big, sophisticated regional power with far greater military capabilities than any country the US has gone to war with since WW2.

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  8. 3. sij

    If reports are true, assassinating Iran’s Soleimani would represent a major, overt act of war. Functionally and legally, it’s not a “risk of war” or “tantamount to war.” It is war outright, and against a country that has invested years of preparation into enduring just that.

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  9. Any journalists or researchers interested in digging in to this further, please get in touch! Happy to share our findings, sources, etc. Our story covers maybe 5% of what we found, and I suspect even that barely scratches the surface. The more of us looking into this the better.

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  10. Please watch episode on FX / Hulu on this story. I love the written word but was blown away by the power of film, and of feeling like you're meeting some of the incredible people we met while reporting this. Please do watch:

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  11. We've spent two years reporting on the causes and consequences of online radicalization. Nothing disturbed me as much as this story, because it shows that we are all deeply vulnerable. Here's our on how this fits into our other reporting:

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  12. 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:

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  13. The 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.

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  14. The 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.

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  15. Our story also reveals two new studies on how YouTube shapes your reality, both exclusive, from + They independently confirm what many suspected: YouTube has been systematically diverting its millions of Br users toward far-right bloggers + conspiracy theories.

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  16. YouTube's algorithm leveraged the Zika crisis to enormous gain, hooking in users desperate to understand the disease crippling their infant children. In Zika-afflicted areas, we found parent after parent virtually addicted to the platform — and served dangerous misinformation.

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  17. This blew my mind: YouTube (and Google) divert users who search basic health terms to conspiracy videos that told them to fear vaccines & their doctors Experts and fomer govt officials told us that "Dr. YouTube" is driving MULTIPLE public health crises, including Zika resurgence

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  18. But the most shocking things we found went beyond politics. Everywhere we looked—and we looked so many places— YouTubers were leveraging the algorithm to sow misinfo and outrage. Schools in chaos, activist groups shuttered by threats, a lot of fear. Always began w a viral video.

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  19. We expected, at most, faint hints that YouTube helped inch far-right Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Instead, Bolsonaro allies and far-right lawmakers all told us YT put them in power. Far-right activists gratefully credited YT's algorithm with their "political awakening."

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  20. Samantha Bee did a very good segment on YouTube’s troubles, leading with our story on algorithm-assisted pedophilia:

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