Algorithms Can Be Interesting
September 8, 2018
Navigate to “As Germans Seek News, YouTube Delivers Far-Right Tirades” and consider the consequences of information shaping. I have highlighted a handful of statements from the write up to prime your critical thinking pump. Here goes.
I circled this statement in true blue:
…[a Berlin-based digital researcher] scraped YouTube databases for information on every Chemnitz-related video published this year. He found that the platform’s recommendation system consistently directed people toward extremist videos on the riots — then on to far-right videos on other subjects.
I noted:
[The researcher] found that the platform’s recommendation system consistently directed people toward extremist videos on the riots — then on to far-right videos on other subjects.
The write up said:
A YouTube spokeswoman declined to comment on the accusations, saying the recommendation system intended to “give people video suggestions that leave them satisfied.”
The newspaper story revealed:
Zeynep Tufekci, a prominent social media researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has written that these findings suggest that YouTube could become “one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.”
With additional exploration, the story asserts a possible mathematical idiosyncrasy:
… The YouTube recommendations bunched them all together, sending users through a vast, closed system composed heavily of misinformation and hate.
You may want to read the original write up and consider the implications of interesting numerical recipes’ behavior.
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