open source research, disinformation, elections, human rights. prev: investigator @UNHumanRights. @USNavy vet. #rstats & #OSINT
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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.
Is there any chance you may update your very interesting findings? Thanks a lot!
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