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    1. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 10 Aug 2021

      YouTube's algorithm is *not* radicalizing people according to a study by leading scholars that examined 29 million YouTube viewing sessions and recently appeared in a prestigious peer reviewed journal: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/32/e2101967118.short …pic.twitter.com/KZhwYerXUt

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021
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      You got my hopes up high! That independent researchers have gotten access to recommendation data! Alas, they have none. But look what they do show—besides invoking the usual "is it the platform or is it the user" false dichotomy that has zero basis from any scholar that I know.pic.twitter.com/D7gdvrt5pk

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @chris_bail

          The field refuses to concede we need: actual data from You Tube and/or a solid longitudinal panel with a qualitative component to even get at the question. Likely both. (Also, come on, who has ever claimed that it's only the algorithm/platform design and users are irrelevant?)

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        3. Chris Bail‏ @chris_bail 10 Aug 2021
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          I absolutely agree that such data would make for a better study, and I'm not sure that most people in the field don't also agree with you on this (and at least one of the study's authors: @duncanjwatts). But I'm not aware of a more sophisticated study yet done.

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        1. Nate F‏ @_NateF_ 10 Aug 2021
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          My hopes were high until I saw it was in PNAS, then I recalibrated and assumed it was more hype than substance, which seems to be the case

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        2. David Rothschild‏Verified account @DavMicRot 10 Aug 2021
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          This tweet thread by @zeynep is a bit confused (1) our results are nuanced, but we show that with many single sessions AND direct links to videos on YouTube, there is a much lower upper-bound on algorithms possibly direct people to extreme content than many researchers assume 1/n

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        3. David Rothschild‏Verified account @DavMicRot 10 Aug 2021
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          (2) Of course we would want actual recomendation data from YouTube, but tracking the actual, full pathway of 100,000's of users is much better than controlled experiments in understanding how people move through YouTube (3) Labelling extreme content is tricky 2/n

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        1. Arno Amabile‏ @ArnoAmabile 11 Aug 2021
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