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Alex Winter: Is The YouTube Effect Good or Bad on Balance?

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

CHAPTER

The Evolution of YouTube's Algorithm

CNN's John Sutter says YouTube doesn't need to rabbit hole you to get you to watch salacious content. The sort of non-fact based culture is pervasive, he says. "You are pre-wired to connect more intensely with hyperbolic angry negative content than you are with middle of the road, fact based content" 'I think that when you deal with media, a media platform is big as YouTube, of which there is no larger media platform' - Sutter.

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