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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
YouTube Recommendations Implicated in Political Radicalization of User
YouTube’s personalization and recommendation algorithms were alleged to have pushed and exposed its young male users to political extremism and misinformation, driving them towards far-right ideologies such as neo-Nazism and white supremacy.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2015-09-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2019-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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