“What keeps people glued to YouTube? Its algorithm seems to have concluded that people are drawn to content that is more extreme than what they started with — or to incendiary content in general.” Why is that a big deal? Because a lot of people watch YouTube, and a lot of people follow its autoplay algorithm down the rabbit hole.
Zeynep Tufekci in the NYT: YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.

+ “Social-media platforms are “feedback machines, giving us not what we claim to want, nor what might be good for us, but what we actually pay attention to.” The New Yorker: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet.

+ Tim Berners-Lee: The web can be weaponized – and we can’t count on big tech to stop it.