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WhatsApp (FB owned) & YouTube formed a powerful, & dangerous, feedback loop of extremism & misinformation.
Together they had formed a pipeline of misinformation, spreading conspiracy theories, campaign material and political propaganda throughout Brazil. nytimes.com/2019/08/15/the…
Together they had formed a pipeline of misinformation, spreading conspiracy theories, campaign material and political propaganda throughout Brazil. nytimes.com/2019/08/15/the…
Cordova suspected that the WhatsApp-spread misinformation had often come from videos that first went viral on YouTube, where they had been boosted by the extremism-favoring algorithms that we documented in our story earlier this week.
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YouTube users then pushed clips of those videos to WhatsApp, whose users wd have seen their news diets on the messaging service suddenly shaped by whatever YouTube’s algorithms happened to boost.
It was like an infection jumping from one host to the next.
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It was like an infection jumping from one host to the next.
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And those WhatsApp users could share the video clips but, because open internet access might be too expensive, or because of illiteracy, were not always in a position to check the videos’ veracity or to seek out alternate points of view.
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“They just receive information, they read it, and they pass it along,” Ms. Cordova said. “That’s how it works. Because it’s too expensive to make a Google search.”
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