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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 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...
      4 replies 83 retweets 269 likes
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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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    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.

      2 replies 54 retweets 228 likes
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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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      9 replies 461 retweets 492 likes
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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. Jim Salsman‏ @jsalsman 12 Mar 2018
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      Jim Salsman Retweeted

      @Zeynep, I am very disappointed in this senior Googler's abject and offhand dismissal of your work without any meaningful engagement. Sadly it's typical of his pattern and practice: https://twitter.com/cdibona/status/972997431653629952 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Mar 2018
      Replying to @jsalsman

      That is weak sauce. It's clearly not the same dynamic; anyway, I could make a much stronger criticism of the NYT if whataboutism was the game to play.

      7:49 PM - 12 Mar 2018
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