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The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap
A New Zealand government report released following a right-wing terrorist killing 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques which indicated that Youtube's recommendation algorithm played an important role in the terrorist's radicalization.
- Date it happened
- 2019-03-15
- Organisation involved
- YouTube
- Product, system or model
- YouTube
Where this came from
Attribution
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