Is the YouTube Algorithm Controlling Us? I Try to Find Out | WIRED

• By thegreenbunk
• November 18, 2020
• WIRED
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Do algorithms enhance our worst behaviors? How do algorithms influence our world views? Are social media algorithms making the world worse? Tech journalist Sinead Bovell talks with an ex-YouTube engineer, a former design ethicist from Google and an Oxford professor about the impact algorithms are having in our lives.

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https://www.wired.com/story/to-curb-terrorist-propaganda-online-look-to-youtube-no-really/
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-recommendations-crackdown-borderline-content/
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-domestic-disinformation-algorithmic-megaphones/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428656

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Is the YouTube Algorithm Controlling Us? I Try to Find Out | WIRED