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YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Allegedly Promoted Climate Misinformation Content
YouTube’s recommendation system and its focus on views and watched time were alleged by an advocacy group to have driven people towards climate denial and misinformation videos.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2020-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
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
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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