YouTube’s Deradicalization Argument Is Really a Fight About Transparency

The reason we’re all focusing on the algorithm’s effects is we don’t know how it really works

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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7 min readDec 29, 2019

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YouTube’s algorithm has once again been thrust into the limelight as 2019 comes to an end, with a new study published on the arXiv, an academic repository for what are commonly referred…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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