"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 ...

A new study of online communities suggests that their interaction dynamics can amplify small, local imbalances in opinions, ...

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 ...

The contemporary threat landscape is no longer defined solely by physical spaces, hierarchical organizations, or clearly ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...