How YouTube Normalizes Right-Wing Extremism w/ Becca Lewis
Tech Won't Save Us
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Is There a Source of Radicalization on YouTube?
There are all these things built into the platform to incentivize this behavior. But then that also kind of leaves the door open to, i don't no, say, you watch one creator and they're not so radical, but then they talk to a white nationalist. And there's not a lot of pushback on these ideas in some cases. So another thing i've observed is different influences radicalizing each other. I would also argue that he's leaned quite a bit into what his audience demands of her. It actually can become impossible to tell who is genuinely espousing these ideologies from a place of pure belief, and who is doing it because it's profitable.
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