Auditing YouTube for ideologically congenial extreme problematic recommendations(pnas.org)

1 pointsby bartimusil y a 3 ans1 comments

Auditing YouTube for ideologically congenial extreme problematic recommendations

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213020120

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delichonil y a 3 ans

"Although we do not find meaningful increases in ideological extremity of recommendations, we show that a growing proportion of recommendations deeper in the recommendation trail come from extremist, conspiratorial, and otherwise problematic channels. This increase is most pronounced among the right-leaning users."

The judgement of "extremist, conspiratorial, and otherwise problematic" cannot possibly be impartial, making this study an act of political advocacy masquerading as scholarship.