Det er dybt bekymrende hvordan YouTubes algoritmer, der styrer strømmen af automatiske “næste klip” med det formål at fastholde vores opmærksomhed, i høj grad er en kilde til spredning af vold og misinformation.
“There are 1.5 billion YouTube users in the world, which is more than the number of households that own televisions. What they watch is shaped by this algorithm, which skims and ranks billions of videos to identify 20 “up next” clips that are both relevant to a previous video and most likely, statistically speaking, to keep a person hooked on their screen.”