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            1. we're coming up on the 9 year anniversary of someone clearly laying out in a police interview how YouTube led to them being radicalized and committing an act of political violence theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/03/roshonara-choudhry-police-interview
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            in 2017, they removed Anwar al-Awlaki's videos (7 years after this extract). i am not aware of any systematic changes they have made to how the algorithm works to prevent this.
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          and this obviously isn't just a problem with Islamic extremism. obviously. i work in videogames, and, to my shame, watching videos about videogames is enough to lead YouTube to suggest far-right videos to you.
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        i'm so angry
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      cool @TaylorLorenz/1108724969574416393
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    “Product tells us that we want to increase this metric, and then we go and increase it.” bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-02/youtube-executives-ignored-warnings-letting-toxic-videos-run-rampant
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