FYI, YouTube's response to thishttps://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1113124026354827265 …
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An incredibly damning piece about how YouTube debated for years about its radicalization problem internally, while still publicly denying its impact even until last week.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-02/youtube-executives-ignored-warnings-letting-toxic-videos-run-rampant …
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1/ We can’t stress this enough: Tackling challenges, misinfo, and harmful content remains our number one priority. In fact, over the past two years, we’ve been squarely focused on these issues.
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You're squarely focused on how far you can push that line maximizing profits while protecting your image & maintaining deniability while damaging the community you work in. It is the exact same calculation Cigarette & Oil Cos use in pushing neg market externalities off on society
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Startling stat that didn’t make it into that damning Bloomberg piece… h/t
@JamieJBartletthttps://twitter.com/pewinternet/status/1112534047463481349?s=21 …
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That actually sounds incredibly low to me, considering recommended videos are played by default after every video watched (and the autoplay switch always reverts to being on, no matter how many times one turns it off).
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Libraries order books and curate their selection they don't just let people walk in and dump whatever books they want on shelves. I believe what she is referring is known as a 'landfill.'pic.twitter.com/aJYGmPYtU6
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And librarians weed out books that are outdated or inaccurate
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Almost every corporate story from coal to oil to tobacco to pharma to new media platforms is the same. We knew it was bad and we pretended it wasn't because we really, really like making money.
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Exactly. Same story, different characters, over and over again.
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Wait. Part of the way they determine content value is by surveys after a video? So they sample the satisfaction of the population that watches conspiracy videos until the end? I could not have read that correctly.
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The other issues that stands out is that I don't understand why
@YouTube wouldn't track politics as a vertical like its other channels. It would be useful to know the extent of all political discussion on YouTube across ideology. That's not inherently a moderation issue. - 1 more reply
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