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Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: the case of YouTube's recommender system.

YouTube has been implicated in the transformation of users into extremists and conspiracy theorists. The alleged mechanism for this radicalizing process is YouTube's recommender system, which is optimized to amplify and promote clips that users are likely to watch through to the end. YouTube optimiz...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 1/2; pp. 835 - 859
Main Authors: Alfano, Mark, Fard, Amir Ebrahimi, Carter, J. Adam, Clutton, Peter, Klein, Colin
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2021
Subjects:
Google Inc.
Recommender systems
Cognition
Conspiracy theories
Seduction
Radicalism
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