Would not have put myself and my parents on the danger of the bottom of the theme of the going to give us leave the world. That one group would be given that i had Serious Problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there what im going to. Do you want to know their story for migrants to terrify the country lobel information for margarets. Sexism homophobia and political extremism score hits on you tube even though the site has plenty of high Quality Content its the extreme videos that attract audiences and to big profits for the channel owners and for the site itself why does hate make money on you tube and what does that mean for the user our topic today on shift. You tubes recommendation algorithms favor polarizing content and that tends to radicalize users conservatives for instance increasingly steered toward right wing extremist channels as a brazilian study has shown 79000000 comments were analyzed for it it seems about time that you tube takes action so as an evil diski see all of the website has announced changes to the Community Guidelines you tube is promising to remove condon that violates you tubes policies faster give trustworthy sources a bigger voice reduce the spread of content thats borderline rule breaking and raise the standards for monetize ation. Big words sounds good but will it work in practice not everyone thinks it will. American video journalist carlos has criticized you tube for not standing up for minorities he endured continuous homophobic and racist abuse from another you tube or Stephen Crowder widely seen as a far right commentator. By the way because netanyahu you know if you pick any but you tube says videos like this are protected by freedom of speech after widespread protests from the l. G. B. T. Q. Community the video sharing site decided to d. Monetize Steven Crowders videos that means no advertising can be run together with these videos meanwhile the public dispute had only increased that you tube or his notoriety and his number of subscribers. Far right and extremist channels often enjoyed Great Success on you tube the more extreme the more comments. This has been shown in a study by brazilian Computer Scientist manuel ribeiro. The leader of austrias Identity Movement martine is active on you tube among his political weapons are trolling and hate speech heckling and abusing other web users. Charges for the model i think these are normal tactics hate trolling up part of his space and if you cant handle it you shouldnt even enter it its almost. August 2900 youtube attempted to play and march in selma and other right wing extremist channels from its site but with little success. To see a lawyer on the case and the next day his channel was back on line. Post their band videos on other channels or simply wait for their fans to reproach them. It can be a rough place where trolls and haters can poison the atmosphere with impunity radical content may be taken down but other users only put it up again right away and people who cant stand the heat may have only one option to leave their accounts but does it have to come to that abuse and huge you can hit very hard and it can hit any user as the example of Brennan Gilmore from the us shows he received Death Threats after conspiracy theories about him started circulating online its living you know sort of with the constant threat of what you know of these these threats that ive received its just it changes you psychologically you know youre kind of sort of constantly looking over your shoulder. The former u. S. Foreign Service Officer who was present at the protests in charlottesville in 2017 when a man drove a car into a crowd of demonstrators. They were protesting against a march by right wing extremists. Brennan gilmore called the attack on video it cost a young woman her life but when i saw what i had on video i gave it to the police 1st. But when i saw it was not an accident it was not an accident it was clear show you know that this this guy had a 1000000 other choices drive through this crowd and so i thought that it was important to share for those reasons and so i sent it out soon far right websites began claiming gilmore had staged the bloodshed some said he was part of a shadow government out of toppled President Trump with cia support this Conspiracy Theory spread like wildfire landing on the rightwing hard line info wars page. I think its like reading your. The hate campaign rapidly infiltrated his real life to this day he receives Death Threats by email Vernon Gilmore you are directly involved you are sick sick sick. Hash tag down with the deep state heres one burning gilmores body found in the ravana river there are going to reverse a half mile down the road. Theyre quite specific in that in the threats Brendan Gilmore has decided to fight hes filed suit against the well known right wing Conspiracy Theory peddler alex jones and his kin for wars website. Now in 4 wars and alex jones no longer have their own channels on you tube. It seems the site is that at least trying and is moving faster to remove content that violates the Community Guidelines still you tube continues to favor extreme use the more controversial the video the more lucrative thats how the youtube algorithm sees it a lot helps to create the algorithm so he knows it inside out. French Computer Scientist left in 2013 he says the algorithms that spell you cheap success are g. P. S. At best the user deeply earning agrees and which is not usually interdictions that can process billions of user sessions all see which media is are going to be the most likely to keep people in the lanes in the years. To keep him is a watch time its the product of hits to 2 sticks and average running times to get that with the time you suspend on the cheap the longer uses stay on the website the better for you cheap thats the company run more ads which then add up to lots of money. The videos that have proven most effective out those with polarizing and extreme views and recommendation algorithms play that part. Its like a vicious circle you just watch one because youre all your curious on the negras and we recommend it again and again jews rule the world homosexuality is a. Disease and refugees rape women and steal jobs wild theories like these are hugely popular on you tube because an algorithm gives them greater exposure but why exactly are we so receptive to videos like these why do we click on this kind of nonsense and help it to spread. Oliver creating as a professor of Communications Science at the university of mines and an expert on Media Innovations he explains what goes on in our heads when we spend time on you tube using. Volved to react faster to dangerous threats and insults to harmless stimuli no standard response is not a neutral but very emotional. When i read hatred and provocations on the internet for example even after all the research ive done on it i cant control myself it affects me immediately. More watch time more hits and more comments its really not surprising that you tube favors extreme content the perceived anonymity of the internet also makes it easier for users to overcome their inhibitions and say things they would never say to someone face to face with which its made the news when i talk to you or i can see your response but with an abstract entity online thats no longer the case they lose part of their humanity and a big problem is that weve learned we dont have to worry about being prosecuted even if we spread hate. When we asked for the you tube algorithm appeals to our lowest instincts with content we react to emotionally and spontaneously but does this fully explain the extremist tendencies on you tube the algorithms are primarily designed to increase revenues and watch time of course companies are supposed to earn money but at the expense of ethics and anyway how would programmers go about creating ethical algorithms. Rhythms are programmed by human beings humans whose prejudices and opinions flow into the programming so algorithms can never be perfectly neutral they always need ethical guidelines the rainer how much policy founded a Nonprofit Organization called the Ethical Tech Society to focus. Search on the ethics of algorithms. And government can and it is that other rhythms cant be programmed to be ethical. But many of the methods we use asserted pendent on data on its the data that shapes the algorithms or the program that was all that the stuff so the program has set up the scam. And we provide the meat and the muscle. So the users actually provide the algorithms with the necessary data through their browsing habits but how is this data evaluated. The arena is demanding that the inner workings of the algorithms be open for evaluation and regularly inspected. The youtube algorithms prioritize watch time and advertising revenues many people only watch videos that are recommended to them this is just what you tube likes to see the center this is not interested in quality their interest is primarily monetary keeping users on the site so theyll watch as much as possible and this is and thats not necessarily policy that does that quality doesnt always have emotional reaction. Value motion is a decisive factor in you tubes Business Model many users see count videos that. Well researched facts are not the highest priority. If you tube were purely an entertainment site such issues would not be as serious. But its established as a primary source of information for society. As a fan is the snowball it is and so its a political decision by the owner google as a corporation. And its optimized for monitors asian way and not for quality. So you tube is all about watch time digital ethics can only become a factor if youtube and other Companies Make fundamental changes to their websites and theyre reluctant to. Because the current Business Model is working all too well so questionable content will keep on popping up in our feet no matter how extreme you tube mostly cause that freedom of speech. Is there anything we can do about it sadly not much but if we stop opening every single sensational video we see then it will stop them being recommended to us so often if everyone did the same it might just push the us youve got a rhythm and a generally more positive direction what do you think doesnt you tube facebook and d w dot com thats all for today take care and see you next time. Coffee its the germans favorite hot beverage. For the consumer its one of lifes pleasures for counting growers its a life of hard work and locate. The church own Trading Company in germany shows it doesnt have to be that way. 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