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brotrrwinner posted...

The notion of youtube, you-fucking-tube, promoting far-right ideals is fucking hilarious

Hilarious as it may be to you, it's a common finding, across multiple countries, among researchers who've studied the issue: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html

It has also been a useful recruiting tool for far-right extremist groups. Bellingcat, an investigative news site, analyzed messages from far-right chat rooms and found that YouTube was cited as the most frequent cause of members red-pilling an internet slang term for converting to far-right beliefs. A European research group, VOX-Pol, conducted a separate analysis of nearly 30,000 Twitter accounts affiliated with the alt-right. It found that the accounts linked to YouTube more often than to any other site.

YouTube has been able to fly under the radar because until recently, no one thought of it as a place where radicalization is happening, said Becca Lewis, who studies online extremism for the nonprofit Data & Society. But its where young people are getting their information and entertainment, and its a space where creators are broadcasting political content that, at times, is overtly white supremacist.

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kin to all that throbs