New information about how various factors influence YouTube’s video recommendation algorithm is revealed by members of the team responsible for working on it. Having only been implemented in 2016, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube's algorithm recommends right-wing, extremist videos to users — even if they haven't interacted with that content before — ...

YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimizing for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content” or easily manipulated by “bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities,” a ...

Does YouTube create extremists? A recent study caused arguments among scientists by arguing that the algorithms that power the site don’t help radicalize people by recommending ever more extreme ...

Over the years, the YouTube suggestion algorithm has become pretty complex. I’ve noticed that it can extrapolate my tastes very well based on my watch history, continuously tempting me to consume more ...