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YouTube's algorithm change successfully curbed misinformation ahead of the election — and boosted Fox News at the same time, new research has found

, was conducted by researchers Guillaume Chaslot, Marc Faddoul, and Hany Farid. Chaslot is a former Google engineer who worked on the YouTube recommendation algorithm; Faddoul is an AI researcher at UC Berkeley, where Farid is a digital forensics professor.

But an unexpected side-effect is that YouTube's algorithm has increasingly pushed videos from Fox News, Chaslot told the Times. Separate data provided to the Time by social media analysis site Social Blade suggested Fox News' YouTube views had more than doubled over the past year.

 

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What a joke!

Tucker, Pirro, Hannity, and Ingraham. The Four Horseshits of the Foxpocalypse.

We aren't even close to handing out the trophies

thanks

Fox News IS mainly misinformation.

Ohh another YouTube algorithm bias. No surprise here.

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