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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Feb 2018

    A fascinating, important in-depth investigation of how YouTube's recommendation algorithm apparently functioned in the 2016 election: no matter which political side the researcher started from, the platform pushed pro-Trump, anti-Clinton videos. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtubes-algorithm-distorts-truth …pic.twitter.com/R3IL16boLf

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    • ELECTORAL FRAUD 2016 Alex Cadle Adam Fatma, PhD Amanda Arthurs 57 Victory Royelz ███████████ Fedcase Loboazul84 They Call Me Bill (SPoitier in To Sir With Love)
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Feb 2018

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Chris Alen Sula

        YouTube’s recommendation engine is highly consequential. Chromebooks are used heavily education—about 50% of the market—and come bundled with YouTube. Millions of K-12 students encounter it routinely.https://twitter.com/chrisalensula/status/959478208700796928 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Chris Alen Sula @chrisalensula
        "YouTube systematically amplifies videos that are divisive, sensational and conspiratorial" #cbe681 https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/959454862646874112 …
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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Feb 2018

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jonathan Albright

        Agree. The future (already here) is visual—videos and memes—not as much text. YouTube and Instagram both underresearched.https://twitter.com/d1gi/status/959500863244029952 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Jonathan AlbrightVerified account @d1gi
        There are sectors of the digital news ecosystem with far greater reach and impact on regular people than Twitter, yet tend to be overlooked by most research. YouTube is one of them. Glad to see this work. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/959454862646874112 …
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      1. Rakesh Bhandari‏ @postdiscipline 2 Feb 2018
        Replying to @zeynep

        If people are being taken to right-wing content, then those providing left-wing content are pressured to appeal to them. Which is what happened. Ostensibly left wing sites/rags were at least as critical of Clinton as Trump. Crooked Timber, Jacobin, Boston Review, the Nation.

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      1. Rakesh Bhandari‏ @postdiscipline 2 Feb 2018
        Replying to @zeynep

        It's because people on the left are much less likely to make fantastic pizzagate clickbait since they came to be left due to their commitment to empirical analysis and the facts led them to their political position.

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      1. Mayor Horowitz‏ @alyasgrey 2 Feb 2018
        Replying to @zeynep

        I certainly noticed that despite frequently flagging conspiracy and pro-Trump videos as "not interested" my recommended videos list was always at least ~15-20% those videos. Especially after watching several progressive political and mainstream news videos.

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      1. Rusty Ralston  🇵🇸‏ @imrustyokay 2 Feb 2018
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        I think clickbait is a big factor here. Hell, I keep seeing video on my recommended that are like: "TEACHER DESTROYS SOCIALIST SJW STUDENTS" or "LEFT GETS OWNED WITH PEPPER SPRAY"

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      2. Gavin Sidebottom‏ @gsidebo 2 Feb 2018
        Replying to @zeynep

        Anecdotal, but YouTube (*specifically* YouTube) seems to be a place where RWers engage far more noticeably. On relatively non-partisan content, the comments/like ratios seem to skew hard to the right. Maybe they just produce more data that drives the algorithms.

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      3. Svenllama W.K.‏ @svenllama 3 Feb 2018
        Replying to @gsidebo

        In other words, they're too stupid to read and get their news by watching TV (or, in this case, videos on the web).

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      2. Steve Runge‏ @steverunge 2 Feb 2018
        Replying to @idrawrobots @zeynep

        IDK about you, but when I'm trying to figure out what marginal affects could have swayed the margins of an entire electorate, I don't spend much time on my own idiosyncrasies as one data point among 120 million.

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