YouTube suggests extremist content more often than alt-right site Gab

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By Chris Stokel-Walker

YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is the worst at recommending extremist snarl material out of three widespread web sites. The a bunch of two in the comparability were Gab, a social media keep the same to Twitter recognized for being effectively liked by of us on the far-appropriate, and Reddit, a facts aggregation keep.

A team from Swansea College and the College of Stuttgart analysed the methodology personalisation algorithms on the three web sites suggest snarl material to their customers.