Why is this interesting? - Thursday, April 4
On YouTube, algorithms, and bad recommendations
Noah here. One of the stories of the week is surely the big Bloomberg piece about YouTube’s inability to curtail runaway recommendations for all sorts of terrible videos. To me the real meat of the piece comes about two-thirds in:
“YouTube doesn’t give an exact recipe for virality. But in the race to one billion hours, a formula emerged: Outrage equals a…
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