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

It’s equally — depending on a user’s behavior — likely that you could have started on a more extreme video and actually moved in the other direction. Some of those videos might have the perception of skewing in one direction or, you know, call it more extreme. I’m not saying that a user couldn’t click on one of those videos that are quote-unquote more extreme, consume that and then get another set of recommendations and sort of keep moving in one path or the other.

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