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Title: Study: YouTube Achieves Some Success at Hobbling Conspiracy Theories Post by: HCK on March 04, 2020, 04:06:13 pm Study: YouTube Achieves Some Success at Hobbling Conspiracy Theories
YouTube's efforts to reduce the spread of conspiracy theories on the platform appear to be bearing fruit. YouTube "significantly reduced the overall volume of recommended conspiratorial content," three researchers wrote in a study from the University of California, Berkeley. The team spent 15 months studying 8 million recommendations from the platform's next-watch algorithm. Source: Study: YouTube Achieves Some Success at Hobbling Conspiracy Theories (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86544.html?rss=1) |