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THREAD: I've been living and working in Germany as a foreigner for six years and the far-right protests here have made me pretty uneasy, especially after I searched YouTube for videos about '#Chemnitz', which only led me down the Alt-Right rabbit hole.. 1/pic.twitter.com/tP1YhSPttn
2. You can use YouTube's API to grab videos related to a search term - in this case, just plain "Chemnitz." When I did that, I was able to retrieve 530 videos which were uploaded over the past 10 years, with more than 200 videos uploaded in the last week alone.pic.twitter.com/0zT5FYu5YR
3. When I sorted these videos by view count, an unsettling trend emerged: most of the highly-viewed videos were from the perspective of the Alt-Right and its subgroups of conspirators, white nationalists, media like RT Deutsch, and other fringe right figures.pic.twitter.com/ET4qfJh4vz
4. One video has almost half a million views. It wants to correct the "MSM" narrative about "no-go areas" caused by Nazis; the problem is actually migrants. (Interestingly, the video text was changed from DE to EN, presumably to reach a broader audience).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDU1vo0Tz6A …
5. I also scraped comments from the top 12 videos (by comment count) to look at the words/phrases being used. Using a sample of words and phrases from the Nazi era, I found that around 8% of comments used such terms (words like lügenpresse, endlösung, altparteien, etc.).pic.twitter.com/bKV6F5qoJk
6. Using these videos as seeds, I also retrieved all "related videos," which took me into the pit of the German Alt-Right, w/ vids like: - Donald Trump - Das trojanische Pferd der Rothschilds - Alice Weidel (AfD) über Kopftuchmädchen - Flüchtlinge begrapschen Frauen im Freibadpic.twitter.com/k3djBvzFO0
7. YouTube as a "radicalizing instrument" is not new, and @zeynep - who you should definitely read - has talked about it a lot. But it's still unsettling to see how quickly you can get engulfed by extreme (and ignorant) views just by poking around YouTube for the latest news.
Impressive work Ray! Any chance you will be posting a blog or on your Github?
Thanks. I started to write a blog with Rmd and code, but will probably only post in a few days. Watching some of those videos was honestly exhausting/depressing 
Of course! It is more depressing than tiring! Have seen the coverage and it does not represent the Germany I know and I don’t even live far from Chemnitz! Anyways looking forward!
Far right? Your all in for a shock when the true far right march! Calling normal citizens far right is only making the far right look more appealing! Let's be honest, the real fascists are the extreme far left! Aka Antifa!
How many levels of education you had to skip to write that tweet?
Hallo the unroll you asked for: Thread by @raymserrato: "THREAD: I've been living and working in Germany as a foreigner for six years and the far-right protests here have made m […]" #Chemnitz https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1036349167394795527.html …
Have a good day. 
As long as you are not a knife migrant or rapefugee, and have assimilated into German society, you will be safe. Anything else is radical leftist / globalist hyperbole and we already have most major media outlets (including YouTube) doing that and censoring the right/center.
I think it's safe to say migrant shopowners whose shops were attacked are assimilated. It didn't stop their shopfronts from being attacked by Neo-Nazis. I doubt the Neo-Nazis who chased non-whites in the street checked those people for their criminal records beforehand, either.
I don’t think it’s safe to say that, tho.
No surprise there.
@raeuberhose @luca guckt mal da, der Thread is was für euch
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