All of YouTube, Not Just the Algorithm, is a Far-Right Propaganda Machine

YouTube’s celebrity culture and community dynamics play a major role in the amplification of far-right content

Becca Lewis
FFWD
Published in
7 min readJan 8, 2020

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Image: Unsplash/Oleg Laptev

In recent years, the media has sounded a constant drumbeat about YouTube: Its recommendation algorithm is radicalizing people.

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Becca Lewis
FFWD
Writer for

I research media manipulation and political digital media at Stanford and Data & Society.