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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2018

      YouTube may well be operating as a giant radicalizing engine through its recommendation algorithm—leading people down a rabbit hole of misinformation, hoaxes and incendiary content. My latest for the New York Times on one of the most overlooked issues. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html …pic.twitter.com/IslV5jshcL

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Almaqah

      🙄🙄I have been hearing so many stories about YouTube suggesting extreme content (white supremacist propaganda, misinformation, hoaxes, etc.) to people watching regular stuff. Especially important since many young people use YouTube to seek information!https://twitter.com/_Almaqah/status/972592619082698752 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Almaqah @_Almaqah
      Replying to @zeynep
      I was watching a Newseum discussion video about the Citizens Councils and Youtube recommended a Matthew Heimbach speech
      42 replies 356 retweets 986 likes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted VA is 4 Lo ❤️ers Biden my time

      🙄https://twitter.com/z9bill/status/972610419541110785 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      VA is 4 Lo ❤️ers Biden my time @z9bill
      Replying to @zeynep
      I see it all the time. I generally watch history lectures and documentaries. I'm constantly receiving suggestions for videos where the "history" content relates conspiracies some old like the Van Daniken rubbish but, many are new at least to me.
      5 replies 63 retweets 268 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ian

      The misinformation promoting tendencies of YouTube’s recommender algorithm is especially important since it is an important source of information for many young people and kids.https://twitter.com/ironedfish/status/972639952596021248?s=21 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Ian @ironedfish
      Replying to @zeynep
      My 9yo is now an expert in how the Titanic didn't sink because of an iceberg.
      13 replies 231 retweets 595 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Fox

      It is possible to fix, or at least significantly dampen, the extremism and misinformation pushed by recommender algorithms like YouTube's—but it would interfere with Google's business model which mints money while externalizing the "pollution" to society.https://twitter.com/ddssff/status/972816483293245440 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      David Fox @ddssff
      Replying to @yerbasuena @grubercraft @zeynep
      That would be good if YT wanted this, but whatever works. I’m just saying it isn’t simple to prevent. It’s not even simple to describe what we need YT to do.
      11 replies 165 retweets 420 likes
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

      The problem is structural—the intersection of the business model and the technology—and instead of treating it like the important, giant issue it is, most of Silicon Valley spends their excess $ billions on various "moonshots" unrelated to the harms of their core business.

      10 replies 140 retweets 452 likes
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Devasta

      This kind of pushing/auto-play at the scale of billions of people isn't a minor issue—especially given the popularity of YouTube for information among young people/children.https://twitter.com/devasta_ie/status/972880704651571200 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Devasta @devasta_ie
      Replying to @zeynep
      Absolutely. Watch one video from Thunderf00t about the hyperloop and my suggested videos poisoned for weeks with shite about feminism causing the downfall of civilisation...
      10:08 AM - 11 Mar 2018
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted VA is 4 Lo ❤️ers Biden my time

          🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😬😬😬😬😬😡😡😡😡https://twitter.com/z9bill/status/972610419541110785 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          VA is 4 Lo ❤️ers Biden my time @z9bill
          Replying to @zeynep
          I see it all the time. I generally watch history lectures and documentaries. I'm constantly receiving suggestions for videos where the "history" content relates conspiracies some old like the Van Daniken rubbish but, many are new at least to me.
          4 replies 21 retweets 103 likes
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Recommendation algorithms are hugely consequential. https://twitter.com/curley_synergy/status/972913316090785795 …

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          This Tweet is unavailable.
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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted خالد الشامي

          YouTube's recommender algorithm operates at the scale of billions of people, and the stuff you see in English is the least worst part of it because it gets the most attention. Imagine what happens elsewhere.https://twitter.com/Khaled_Shami98/status/972915336239570946 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          خالد الشامي @Khaled_Shami98
          Replying to @zeynep
          It's the same on muslim Youtube btw. Literally everything Islamic on YouTube leads to Salafi or even jihadi content in the end, through this Algorithm BS.
          3 replies 106 retweets 242 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gabi Porter

          This is a potent dynamic with global consequences. Recommenders algorithms and autoplay mint money for Google but also do this—>https://twitter.com/gabiporter/status/972942201528438785 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Gabi Porter @gabiporter
          Replying to @zeynep
          This is so true. My mother watches documentaries on YouTube and the algorithm took her right down a giant anti-semitic "the evil Rothschilds rule the world" wormhole within three videos. And she doesn't know or understand that she's being manipulated.
          5 replies 79 retweets 216 likes
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2018

          So to people taking issue with the word radicalizing. What I am talking about here is radicalization through misinformation, lies and hoaxes—not radicalization in the sense of challenging power or outside of mainstream in a grounded, radical manner. That's not the dynamic.

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Liam Hogan

          Folks, please go read this whole thread below. All of it. And then remember that Chromebooks, which come with access to YouTube (and that I use because great sturdy secure machines!), are half the K-12 market in the US.https://twitter.com/limerick1914/status/972837152940855296 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Liam Hogan @Limerick1914
          I just typed slavery into the youtube search and clicked on a video by an academic discussing the origins of plantation slavery in the New World. The next video queued up to autoplay was a discussion of "white slavery" by two Holocaust deniers (Ernst Zündel & Michael Hoffman II) https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/972595906821292032 …
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kris Luedke

          The number of people telling me that YouTube autoplay ends up with white supremacists videos from all sorts of starting points is pretty staggering. This needs large-scale and systematic research.https://twitter.com/kalicite/status/973266977060999168?s=21 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Kris Luedke @Kalicite
          Replying to @zeynep
          Watched a vid on general info on ancient Sumeria. YouTube then suggested Ancient Aliens (yeah, should have seen that comminng) & scores of white supremacy (huh???) vids.
          8 replies 190 retweets 285 likes
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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Blake Montgomery

          This happens regularly. Remember, many young people turn to YouTube for news. And are fed this stuff. (This one may have been fixed as things that get called out like this get manually fixed. But this is structural and routine).https://twitter.com/blakersdozen/status/973301915743170560?s=21 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Blake MontgomeryVerified account @blakersdozen
          The Alex Jones Show pops up first on YouTube when searching for "Austin explosions" in Incognito. Jones suggests without evidence that Antifa are "prime suspects" in planting the packages. pic.twitter.com/XDKepPqrr6
          3 replies 48 retweets 122 likes
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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted !warp.max.ghost

          Yep. Gaming is a popular topic among kids and I’ve seen YouTube recommend and autoplay horrible, racist and misogynist content following some random game tips video.https://twitter.com/marsarchaic/status/973278408971927552?s=21 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          !warp.max.ghost @ghostly_max
          Replying to @zeynep
          1/2 This. One very alarming vector this propaganda travels is through gaming content on YouTube, which is primarily viewed by children.
          6 replies 45 retweets 140 likes
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        11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          No. Just no. I appreciate the complexity and challenge of this transition but, just no to appropriating one of the strongest public institutions we have like this. https://twitter.com/lucas_shaw/status/973686764224249857 …

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          This Tweet is unavailable.
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        12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          A common pattern as far as I can tell. https://twitter.com/twentyforts/status/973711660954333184 …

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          This Tweet is unavailable.
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        13. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Matt McCollow  👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 👨‍💻 🏃‍♂️ 🏋️‍♂️ 🎮

          This isn’t going to address the core issue at all.https://twitter.com/mmccollow/status/973745566034382848 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Matt McCollow  👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 👨‍💻 🏃‍♂️ 🏋️‍♂️ 🎮 @mmccollow
          I don’t see how this helps solve YouTube’s problem. Their main problem, as @zeynep wrote about, is that their algorithm leads users to radical/extremist content. This is barely even a half-measure. https://twitter.com/wired/status/973693969438773248 …
          5 replies 26 retweets 65 likes
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        14. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Craig Silverman

          Yep.https://twitter.com/craigsilverman/status/973717566161002496 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Craig SilvermanVerified account @CraigSilverman
          The Nesting Doll Strategy: whereby platforms offload editorial responsibility in layers until you get to the final doll and it’s either volunteer community editors working for free or low paid content moderators employed by contractors. https://twitter.com/natjarv/status/973686260232531969 …
          2 replies 30 retweets 143 likes
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        15. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Tom Coates

          Outsourcing the responsibility (but not any of the profits) to non-profits. What could go wrong?https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/973737975208034304?s=21 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Tom CoatesVerified account @tomcoates
          The bad bit is that there’s a good chance that YouTube is sending millions of abusive conspiracy minded crazies in Wikipedia’s direction and just *hoping* that it’s resilient enough to withstand it. This is not a given!
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        16. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Wikimedia Foundation

          To be clear, one of world’s richest companies, with billions of hoarded cash, has basically threatened to crush one of the few remaining wonders of the early web because they do not want to take responsibility while minting money.https://twitter.com/wikimedia/status/973995260056625153?s=21 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Wikimedia FoundationVerified account @Wikimedia
          You may have heard that @YouTube is going to start linking videos about conspiracies to @Wikipedia articles. Here's our statement about this, and a few words about how Wikipedia works. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/973978414553149456 …
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          16 replies 704 retweets 931 likes
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        17. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ryan Mac  🙃

          I shouldn't be shocked, but not even giving a heads up that a giant, wildly-profitable internet corporation is about to potentially send hoards to destroy your site in order to externalize its own problems should at least deserve a heads up. 🙄https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/973999499289927680 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Ryan Mac  🙃Verified account @RMac18
          YouTube didn't tell Wikipedia that it would be using the site's content for its conspiracy video excerpts. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/973978414553149456 …
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          5 replies 161 retweets 339 likes
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        18. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Matt Pearce  🦅

          It's the incentive structure and the business model interacting with what's technologically possible (which is expanded by the incentive structure and the business model). The rest of the story that Silicon Valley tells itself about itself is mostly fluff.https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/973988224312926208 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Matt Pearce  🦅Verified account @mattdpearce
          This thread by Max is incredibly insightful and important. Wikipedia is a far more reliable source of information than Facebook or YouTube. We should all be asking why that happened. https://twitter.com/max_read/status/973687916114448384 …
          4 replies 30 retweets 69 likes
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        19. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Justin Davis

          Oh, great. 🙄https://twitter.com/errorjustin/status/975127862096281600 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Justin DavisVerified account @ErrorJustin
          Oh, good: "YouTube Kids featured many conspiracy theory videos which make claims that the world is flat, that the moon landing was faked, and that the planet is ruled by reptile-human hybrids." http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-suggested-conspiracy-videos-to-children-using-its-kids-app-2018-3 …
          3 replies 26 retweets 78 likes
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        20. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Anthony Carboni

          This is the best thread. Grateful and still laughing h/t @Pinboard.https://twitter.com/acarboni/status/976545648391553024 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Anthony CarboniVerified account @acarboni
          Me: *watches a single YouTube tutorial so I can fix my door hinge* YouTube: WHAT'S UP, HINGE-LOVER? HERE ARE THE TOP 1000 VIDEOS FROM THE HINGER COMMUNITY THIS WEEK. CHECK OUT THIS TRENDING HINGE CONTENT FROM ENGAGING HINGEFLUENCERS
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