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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.
- Date it happened
- 2015-09-01
- Organisation involved
- YouTube
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