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YouTube is the top online platform for teens, says @pewinternet. Here’s @alanburdick in the @newyorker on how YouTube’s extremism engine operates. Flat-Earthers may seem funny but, as I wrote in my NYT op-ed, the site operates like this for so many things. https://t.co/jDXonbVNGc pic.twitter.com/a1L33aVdn3

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 1, 2018

I can’t think of a platform where people’s ignorance and credulity has been so ruthlessly exploited for profit—not even Fox News promotes 9/11 inside-job conspiracies & flat earth propaganda.

— Cristóbal Matibag (@o_ceifero) June 1, 2018

Fox news has *nothing* on YouTube globally. Nothing. This isn’t just ideological slant: it’s individualized, harmful, hateful propaganda at the scale of billions—ensnaring the vulnerable the most. https://t.co/0v19YUCId1

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 1, 2018