I just typed slavery into the youtube search and clicked on a video by an academic discussing the origins of plantation slavery in the New World. The next video queued up to autoplay was a discussion of "white slavery" by two Holocaust deniers (Ernst Zündel & Michael Hoffman II)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/972595906821292032 …
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I typed "slave trade" into the youtube search and the eighth video in the list (out of 653,000 results) is a work of anti-Semitic propaganda which falsely claims that Jewish people dominated the transatlantic slave trade.
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The next video queued up to autoplay is narrated by David Duke, a Neo-Nazi and former Grand Wizard of the KKK. Other videos in the list feature Holocaust deniers like David Irving. One search and two clicks later and you are deep into Stormfront territory. This is unconscionable.
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Algorithms like this simply do not work and suggestions to "improve" algorithms to resolve this issue are absurd and irresponsible. For broad topics such as these, manual curation and selection is essential, especially in the first 20 results or so. There is no shortcut.
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The search to find the obscure work of extremists should require effort, instead YouTube is serving up far-right propagandists as “recommended viewing” on a range of important topics. Black Mirror has nothing on this.
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I still listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yypqSulQMWM … because this man fixed my youtubes.
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