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A new study [PDF] suggests what we've suspected for years is right: YouTube is a pipeline for extremism and hate.
How do we know that? More than 330,000 videos on nearly 350 YouTube channels were analyzed and manually classified according to a system designed by the Anti-Defamation League. They were labeled as either media (or what we think of as factual news), "alt-lite" intellectual dark web, or alt-right.
[...] The alt-right is what's traditionally associated with white supremacy, pushing for a white ethnostate. Those who affiliate with the "intellectual dark web" justify white supremacy on the basis of eugenics and "race science." Members of the alt-lite purport to not support white supremacy, though they believe in conspiracy theories about "replacement" by minority groups.
[...] The study's authors hypothesized that the alt-lite and intellectual dark web often serve as a gateway to more extreme, far-right ideologies. So they tested that by tracing the authors of 72 million comments on about two million videos between May and July of last year. The results were worrying. More than 26% of people who commented on alt-lite videos tended to drift over to alt-right videos and subsequently comment there.
[...] The team, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, also found evidence that the overlap between alt-righters and others who dabble in intellectual dark web and alt-lite material is growing. The authors estimate that about 60,000 people who commented on alt-lite or intellectual dark web content got exposed to alt-right videos over a period of about 18 months. The work was presented at the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Barcelona this week.
In a statement, YouTube said it's working through these issues: "Over the past few years ... We changed our search and discovery algorithms to ensure more authoritative content is surfaced and labeled prominently in search results and recommendations and begun reducing recommendations of borderline content and videos that could misinform users in harmful ways."
A spokesperson added that YouTube disputes the methodology and that it doesn't take into account more recent updates to its hate speech policy or recommendations. "We strongly disagree with the methodology, data and, most importantly, the conclusions made in this new research," the spokesperson said.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Friday January 31 2020, @08:11PM (6 children)
You don't get to dictate what I should watch. I watch whatever I like. Soft right hard right left. If you desume that watching implies agreeing, then first have a word with your pals in Hollywood, then get back on YouTube to pontificate.
Leftist videos, especially on the moderate side, all tell the same bullshit, and it is also the same stuff coming out modernist Catholics. At least the right has more fantasy.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @09:55PM
[citations needed]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 31 2020, @11:26PM
Yeah, we get it, Opus Dei...all will be right with the world when the Old Latin Rite is reinstated, with the creepy old pederast in a dress turning his back on the congregation and muttering "hoc est corpus meum" under his breath again...
Fuck off, will you? Your Church trails a nearly 1700-year-long tail of corruption, theological illiteracy, and blasphemy behind it, starting with the Council at Nicaea in 325AD. Jesus would not recognize a single thing to come out of that Council. In his eyes, you are as much a heretic as you think Martin Luther was, and he has Hell's flames prepared good and hot for you.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday February 01 2020, @05:52AM (3 children)
Oy, mate! Careful with those straws, the rate you consume them for your strawmen them raises the price of cattle-feed in Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday February 02 2020, @10:29PM (2 children)
I guess you did not turn on the newspeak translator. It's a choice. I risk to be labeled paranoid, you risk to ask wtf is happening when dictatorship knocks at your door. But then, you are not consistent in your dismissal.
Let me exemplify:
- it's ok to be white => guy obviously hate gays and want to build an ethnocentric dictatorship
- ADL: this is hate speech, this list of guys are white supremacists, have a look everybody => Poor ADL is trying to make sense of the galaxy of dangerous haters that spray a svastika on a door with the inscription "there lives a jew", have a look everybody.
I mean the guys are remembering the holocaust in the perspective of nazis, no, germans, no, white men against jewish victims so it is collective responsibility, and at the same time the progressively steady ethnic cleansing of palestine is not a matter of collective responsibility nor defence of the race, because jew is not a race but a religion, and those enem- terrorists send us rockets anyway.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday February 02 2020, @10:50PM (1 child)
That's a self-preservation strategy, mate. Never trust a translator you didn't designed and implemented yourself.
That translator that you use? It's spewing gibberish at a high rate.
Being born under such a regime, nothing new in my life, then.
Though, the visible and between the lines signs show me a very low probability of dictatorship emergence... too many strong enough competing interests at play for a dictatorship to take hold.
More probable is an idiocracy system - everybody in (both political or business) power and their dogs have convergent interests towards one (btw, do they pay you or are you doing their work pro bono?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday February 03 2020, @12:33AM
>That translator that you use?
that's not my translation, that's the zeitgeist. Look around, you will find it stated and implied in many reasonings.
>>when dictatorship knocks at your door.
>Being born under such a regime, nothing new in my life, then.
that was the 1.0 version.
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