YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers in mild echo chambers, it is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of your political alignment.out of New York University's Center for Social Media and Politics that was highlighted this month by Brookings.
Here are some questions. To what level do these recommendation algorithms fuel these echo chambers? Do the algorithms push users down increasingly narrow ideological pathways, radicalizing netizens as they go deeper into an online rabbit hole? Can software turn people to extremism? Is there a systemic bias in the recommendations?
The participants were asked to select one starting YouTube video out of 25, made up of a mixture of political and non-political stuff, and then follow a set path through the videos YouTube recommended they watch next. The netizens were told to always click on either the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth recommendation each time; the recommendation slot was chosen at random from the start.
"We also find that, on average, the YouTube recommendation algorithm pulls users slightly to the right of the political spectrum, which we believe is a novel finding." Mild ideological echo chambers thus exist on YouTube, the researchers argued. But there seems to be little to no evidence that viewers are put on a fast track to more ideologically extreme content.
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