YouTube recommended a Russian media site thousands of times for analysis of Mueller's report, a watc
YouTube recommended a Russian media site thousands of times for analysis of Mueller’s report, a watchdog group says
By Drew Harwell and Craig Timberg at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/26/youtube-recommended-russian-media-site-above-all-others-analysis-mueller-report-watchdog-group-says/?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.fe40664b8833
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When the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III came out last week, offering the most authoritative account yet of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, YouTube recommended one video source hundreds of thousands of times to viewers seeking information, a watchdog says: RT, the global media operation funded by the Russian government.
AlgoTransparency, founded by former YouTube engineer Guillaume Chaslot, analyzed the recommendations made by the 1,000 YouTube channels it tracks daily. The group found that 236 of those collectively recommended RT’s “On Contact: Russiagate & Mueller Report w/ Aaron Mate” more than 400,000 times.
“So YouTube’s algorithm massively recommends Russia’s take on the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election,” Chaslot tweeted Thursday night.
Formerly known as Russia Today, RT is one of the most popular media channels on YouTube, claiming more than 2 billion views. The video interview it recommended, posted by RT’s U.S.-focused division RT America, is sharply critical of American press coverage of the Mueller report and calls journalists “Russiagate conspiracy theorists” and “gossiping courtiers to the elite.”
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