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Debunking The Narrative Of Right Wing Radicalization On Youtube

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News, Politics

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In September a report was published by Data and Society making false claims about people like me, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro. The report claimed that Youtube was radicalizing young people toward the extreme right. The story was carried by almost every mainstream media outlets and pushed as fact, even though there was no data. It may just be that, like PewDiePie, the left is looking to smear anyone using a competitor or is opposed to their ideology of social justice.

But new data has emerged from Software Engineer Mark Ledwich which disproves this narrative. There is no clear path to radicalization. In fact you could argue that if politics is flowing in any direction, it is to the left.

Left wing channels get more than double the views of right wing channels on youtube, and the idea of radicalization is simply false and in all likelihood a smear against those who oppose intersectional feminist and the regressive left.

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0:00.0

In September, a report was published called Alternative Influence,

0:03.9

Broadcasting the Reactionary Write on YouTube.

0:06.4

The report makes many claims about what's going on with YouTube

0:09.3

and a group it calls the Alternative Influence Network.

0:12.3

They say it's an assortment of scholars,

0:13.8

media pundits, and internet celebrities who use YouTube

0:16.4

to promote a range of political positions

0:18.0

from mainstream versions of libertarianism

0:20.0

and conservatism all the way to overt white nationalism.

0:23.2

One of the most notorious images was this red line sort of conspiracy crime web

0:28.6

showing various creators and how they're connected.

0:31.4

But as it turns out, this is not real data.

0:34.1

This was actually more of an opinion piece

0:36.8

where there's no clear methodology

0:38.6

to how any of this was discovered.

0:40.1

In fact, many of the lines between creators in this graph

0:43.6

are in fact fake.

0:44.7

The general narrative from this report

0:47.3

is that there's a path to radicalization

0:49.5

for people who go on YouTube

0:51.2

and this kind of rhetoric is being repeated

0:53.2

by many mainstream news sources.

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