YouTube Radicalization is a Myth with Mark Ledwich
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Is There a Special Cabal of Scientologists?
Fake accounts built up the history, just watching the videos that they like. They all watched the same videos over a few months. And then we looked at the impact that the personalization and the recommendations that were shown on the homepage and next videos when they watched them. We found some channels, there was like some special channels like Ted Talks in the Obama White House and The Church of Scientology where all the recommendations would go back to their own channel. It didn't matter who was watching it or what video it was on. It had a special case.
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