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·Jan 8, 2020

All of YouTube, Not Just the Algorithm, is a Far-Right Propaganda Machine

YouTube’s celebrity culture and community dynamics play a major role in the amplification of far-right content — In recent years, the media has sounded a constant drumbeat about YouTube: Its recommendation algorithm is radicalizing people. First articulated by Zeynep Tufekci in a short piece for The New York Times, and later corroborated by ex-Google employee Guillaume Chaslot, the theory goes something as follows: YouTube, in its wish…

YouTube

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All of YouTube, Not Just the Algorithm, is a Far-Right Propaganda Machine
All of YouTube, Not Just the Algorithm, is a Far-Right Propaganda Machine
YouTube

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FFWD

·Oct 10, 2019

It’s Easy to Despair and Do Nothing After the Halle Synagogue Shooting. But We Shouldn’t.

We don’t have the answers to stop terror attacks being live streamed, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ask questions — In March, there was the Christchurch massacre, when a gunman gleefully referenced popular memes while live streaming himself shooting dozens of Muslim community members. …

Live Streaming

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It’s Easy to Despair and Do Nothing After the Halle Synagogue Shooting. But We Shouldn’t.
It’s Easy to Despair and Do Nothing After the Halle Synagogue Shooting. But We Shouldn’t.
Live Streaming

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Data & Society: Points

·Nov 20, 2018

Why influence matters in the spread of misinformation

Becca Lewis is a Ph.D student in communication working at Data & Society. Below she writes about findings from a recent Knight report that explored how misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election. If you start paying attention to the issue of online disinformation, you will start to hear a…

Politics

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Why influence matters in the spread of misinformation
Why influence matters in the spread of misinformation
Politics

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Trust, Media and Democracy

·Nov 20, 2018

Why influence matters in the spread of misinformation

Becca Lewis is a Ph.D student in communication working at Data & Society. Below she writes about findings from a recent Knight report that explored how misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election. If you start paying attention to the issue of online disinformation, you will start to hear a…

Politics

4 min read

Why influence matters in the spread of misinformation
Why influence matters in the spread of misinformation
Politics

4 min read


Jul 12, 2017

Alt-Left Out

Media manipulation outside the far-right — In May, Alice Marwick and I released Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online — a report that showed how certain far-right online communities work together to manipulate mainstream media narratives and spread misinformation. These groups are often called the “alt-right” but are more accurately a loose collection of internet trolls, conspiracy…

Public Sphere

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Alt-Left Out
Alt-Left Out
Public Sphere

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Becca Lewis

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I research media manipulation and political digital media at Stanford and Data & Society.

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