YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes
&gt; Sorry, can I just interrupt you there for a second? Just let me be clear: You’re saying that there is no rabbit hole effect on YouTube?<p>&gt; I’m trying to describe to you the nature of the problem. So what I’m saying is that when a video is watched, you will see a number of videos that are then recommended. Some of those videos might have the perception of skewing in one direction or, you know, call it more extreme. There are other videos that skew in the opposite direction.<p>I assisted with data research on YouTube recommended videos (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;carolineodonovan&#x2F;down-youtubes-recommendation-rabbithole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;carolineodonovan&#x2F;down-y...</a>), and this claim is misleading at best. There may be <i>some</i> videos that aren&#x27;t extreme, but that doesn&#x27;t matter if they are a) in the extreme minority and&#x2F;or b) appear very far down in the queue of 20+ recommended videos when users typically either do &quot;Up Next&quot; or look at&#x2F;action only the top few recommendations.<p>This isn&#x27;t a &quot;both sides&quot; issue.