Academic Bias & YouTube, Mark Ledwich
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2020
- What can we say for sure about UA-cam's effect on political radicalisation? Why were so many heterodox channels being wrongly categorised as "Far Right" in a recent academic study?
After the academics in the study accepted a mistake and apologised, Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller spoke to researcher Mark Ledwich, the creator of Transparency Tube, to understand what was going on.
Transparency.Tube: transparency.tube/
This is a follow up to the recent film 'WTF is Going On? If Everything is Far Right, then Nothing Is': • WTF is Going On? If Ev...
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In the divided red and blue world, those of us who are purple are often seen as red by those looking through a blue lense, and conversely seen as blue by someone looking through a red lense.
Rebel Wisdom-you are doing really important work and I can’t express enough how appreciated it is. Don’t stop!!!!
So glad David followed up on this. I also really appreciated the honesty displayed here.
You are being way to lenient. This was grossly negligent. Also, I wouldn't be that sure that it wasn't deliberated. Papers are getting proofread. The ignorance about the UA-cam content creators and what they produce, would be unbelievable.
It’s not deliberate, it’s only sloppy, negligent, irresponsible and unprofessional. Otherwise, solid.
Good on the authors for correcting their work!
Your channel is one of the best on UA-cam, exactly the sort of content that people need to hear and want to hear in their journey to make sense of journalism in the modern world. Great idea for a channel and inevitable also
I finally “discovered” UA-cam as an amazing learning tool in 2015. Since then, I’d been first pulled farther left (from my leftist starting point) and was moved center-right before landing I’m on the center-left.
How did such poor researchers, unfamiliar with their subject matter, get funded?
This is what gets pushed as "Science" eventually. Appalling.
"Far right" now means functioning brain.
They call it 'research.' Ha ha...
Radicalization by algorithm is definitely a thing. There are certain creators who get thanked all the time on their streams by people who consider themselves deradicalized. I've also noticed how I've been offered increasing amount much more right wing, more extreme content since I started watching people like Benjamin Boyce, even though he's pretty centrist.
Thank you for the work you are doing! Enjoy watching and learning from your channel.
I'm really glad you did this David
One change that happened for me on my UA-cam account about a year ago concerns filtering out videos I don't want to watch. Beside each UA-cam recommendation, when you hover, there's a menu control drawn as three vertical dots in the top right corner. Two of the menu options are "not interested" and "report". I've never used "report" for a UA-cam video, but I have reported abusive comment replies of the "you are X" mold, for some nasty value of X.
excellent work guys, tyvm!!!
Fantastic and very needed discussion. Thanks so much.
What's the difference between book burning and these technocrats. Not reading the content but still judging it is impossible. It's the same a supermarket does not control the content of a product and opinions are not standard products.
This is fascinating, thank you.