What does a more transparent YouTube look like? In the last three weeks, I set out to re-imagine a YouTube experience that helps us understand the algorithmic personalization and make better sense of the world.

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YouTube is the most popular video-sharing website in the world. In 2019, more than 500 hours of videos were uploaded to YouTube every minute, available for billions of people to watch.

Thanks to Google’s deep neural network, only dozens of videos show up on our home page. The algorithm is capable of sifting through billions of videos and serving different videos for individuals in real-time…