"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

For over 20 years, my organization has been involved with both researching and collaborating with technology companies, social media platforms and government agencies to understand, map and predict ...

A team of researchers at universities in the U.S., Switzerland, and Brazil found that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is likely to share racist right-wing channels. The work is detailed in ...

A new report released today by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has uncovered troubling evidence that Instagram’s recommendation algorithm can rapidly ...

A new study conducted by the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab) at the University of Pennsylvania sheds light on a pressing question: Does YouTube's algorithm radicalize young Americans?

Like millions of people around the globe, I open YouTube to look for something practically every day. Maybe, like me, you are also seeking something in particular: home improvement how-tos, a funny ...

I bet you don’t think of yourself as capable of being radicalized—as someone swayed by extremist views online. Think again. You are—and the most popular social media platform in the world is ...