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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2018

      YouTube is the top online platform for teens, says @pewinternet. Here's @alanburdick in the @newyorker on how YouTube's extremism engine operates. Flat-Earthers may seem funny but, as I wrote in my NYT op-ed, the site operates like this for so many things. https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-on-a-flat-earth …pic.twitter.com/a1L33aVdn3

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2018

      There is a lot of focus on the harms of engagement algorithms and design on Facebook (which are *very* real) but the damage YouTube is doing especially to young people and around the world especially in places with lower literacy/education and weak institutions is immense.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2018

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      Fox news has *nothing* on YouTube globally. Nothing. This isn’t just ideological slant: it’s individualized, harmful, hateful propaganda at the scale of billions—ensnaring the vulnerable the most.https://twitter.com/o_ceifero/status/1002610030749708288 …

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      I can’t think of a platform where people’s ignorance and credulity has been so ruthlessly exploited for profit—not even Fox News promotes 9/11 inside-job conspiracies & flat earth propaganda.
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2018

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      Look, it’s this at the scale of billions. Pushing white-supremacy and Nazism in the West; Islamic extremism and ethnic hatted in Southeast Asia, etc. The effects over time and at scale are tremendously harmful. This is not an “educational” opportunity. https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/1002582467340132352 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2018

      Dear concerned, active parents in my mentions who think it’s just a learning opportunity for their kids. Good for you. You’re deluded if you think that’s how the whole world works.(You’re also deluded if you think your family is 100% immune to sustained propaganda but good luck!)

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2018

          On pre-cursors of Nazism: "Above all, Hitler knew how to project himself through the mass media, honing his messages so that they would penetrate the white noise of politics." Today, he'd be gaming algorithms. Wait, YouTube would already do that for him. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler …pic.twitter.com/oT1e5vnVbl

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        2. Mike Davis‏ @mikedmapper 1 Jun 2018
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          So basically Google has achieved radicalization at scale?

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        3. ageworthy‏ @ageworthy 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @mikedmapper @zeynep

          If you have evidence of kids seeing this at scale and it having that effect on them. Otherwise, you're just guessing.

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        2. Matthew Gracie‏ @InfosecGoon 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @atlantictriangl @zeynep

          Amazon video streaming has a ton of weird conspiracy videos and stuff on it, too. I think they cheerfully take anything free off of YouTube and republish.

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        2. Night breezes seem to whisper‏ @PinkFireClouds 1 Jun 2018
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          My children (8 and 6) are banned from youtube unsupervised. I put on a video for them of Fortnite dances (youtube's top search result for the term) and it featured swastikas. The whole platform is poisoned with this crap.

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        3. Virginia 💚Fulldiversity‏ @fulldiversity 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @PinkFireClouds @JloulO @zeynep

          Have you read this great article? https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 …

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        1. Alison | AlisonBob.eth (3,3)  🔺‏ @aalexis1234 1 Jun 2018
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          I wish we could clone you 😂

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        2. The Like Hoarder‏ @Dilbert_Camus 1 Jun 2018

          this is already what's happening with google's recommendation algorithms. because human attention is a zero-sum game, whoever produces the largest volumes of content with the best search optimization de facto censors every other opinion on the web

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