YouTube successfully disabled the algorithm that promotes extreme videos

YouTube’s recommendation algorithm prevents people from accidentally falling down the rabbit hole of extremist political content, researchers have found. Following algorithm changes in 2019, personal choice plays a larger role in whether people are exposed to such materials.

Manoel Horta Ribeiro Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne used two types of bots to recreate how people interact with YouTube. “We came up with the idea of finding a way to disentangle the effects…