incidents including some shootings. so it s not like it was any mystery to them. we know now that they knew for over a year this was a violent conspiracy theory. driving on this platform. through its own recommendation algorithm many waited and waited, until a month before the election to call it quits. so, i want to ask a very finally force question that i ve been mulling on as a renter story. and let me see if i could articulate this specifically. so the algorithm is predicting that this woman with this profile would like this qanon stuff, right? and it keeps pushing it towards or, even when she doesn t definitely say yes get me into that group. but it somehow feels as though the algorithm is correct? they have her pegged as the kind of person who might be q curious. i am trying to get it. at one level is the algorithm doing the work, and it will level is the work being done by peoples nested preferences and trust relationship external to facebook? yes, that is a very well
tell this podcast, severe severe and cnn senior media reporter darcy. welcome to you all. and this is something that s been emerging for years, right? not only are these echo chambers insidious but louder on one side than the other? right. and i don t think it comes as a surprise to anyone, including folks at youtube, their recommendation algorithm is really a radicalization machine. the question is what are they going to do good this problem? it s one thing to recommend puppy videos to somebody interested in dogs but totally a different thing to send someone down a rabbit hole where they re seeing misinformation, extremist or political rhetoric, et cetera, et cetera. so the question for youtube and for all of these social media companies, facebook, youtube or twitter, what are they going to do to solve this issue? i don t think we ve heard a real great solution or answer yet. and tech platforms say, and i think it s fair to say, cable
BEIJING (Reuters) -TikTok owner ByteDance launched the Volcano Engine brand on Thursday to offer its personalised recommendation algorithm to more corporate clients, as the Chinese company seeks to expand beyond its mainstay consumer apps. ByteDance's recommendation system is considered the "secret sauce" in its success with apps including TikTok, TikTok's Chinese version Douyin, and news aggregator Toutiao.