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Don't just blame YouTube’s algorithms for ‘radicalisation’. Humans also play a part

  • Written by Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology
Don't just blame YouTube’s algorithms for ‘radicalisation’. Humans also play a partYouTube uses a wide range of tools to keep viewers watchingShutterstock

This is the second article in a series looking at the attention economy and how online content gets in front of your eyeballs. Read part 1 here.

People watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Over the past few years, the video sharing platform has come...

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