YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes

Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by minikites on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:14PM (#19524121)

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1110301264657551360

>Joe Rogan went on Infowars today, the same day a man who lost his child in the Sandy Hook shooting committed suicide. The grieving father was among the plaintiffs suing Alex Jones for defamation after smearing the murdered children and their parents as part of a hoax.

>In the same Infowars episode that Joe Rogan appeared on, Alex Jones pushed a conspiracy theory that the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook didn't kill himself, but may have been murdered to silence Jones and end the first amendment.

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Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by fmihaila on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:27PM (#19524236)

> https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1110301264657551360

That Twitter thread is interesting, because it contains a link to a 'This American Life' program that gives a platform to Alex Jones to explain himself. I doubt anyone would call 'This American Life' a platform for spreading conspiracy theories or hate.

In this light, is Joe Rogan, who also allows people like Jones to explain themselves, a moderate or an extremist?

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Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by minikites on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:06PM (#19525678)

You have to look at what both Joe Rogan and This American Life do in a larger context, which should clarify the differences. I do think that TAL should not have given airtime to Alex Jones because it really is that dangerous to give him (and people like him) a platform.

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Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by cwkoss on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:57PM (#19525063)

Vic Berger is a pretty disingenuous propagandist. He's funny, but I wouldn't take him too seriously.

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Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by minikites on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:11PM (#19525718)

Did those events not happen?

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Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by cwkoss on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:21PM (#19525791)

Vic made two factual statements, with the disingenuous implication that they are connected or causally related.

Alex Jones is a wacko. Talking to Alex Jones does not necessarily mean you are also a wacko. This new concept of moral badness transitively propagating through conversation is nonsensical and counterproductive.

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Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algo... by shiohime on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:53PM (#19525983)

thx for letting me know, know what I'm doing this evening. Time to kick back, pop some Super Male Vitality pills, and watch everyone's favorite water filter salesman :+1:

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