A widely reported-on piece of research out of Dublin City University last week informed us that young male users of TikTok and YouTube Shorts are being fed a toxic cocktail of “problematic” content emanating from the ‘manosphere’ and other, as the authors see it, far right sources.
The Recommending Toxicity: The role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers report out of the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre set out to discover just how prevalent this extreme, male-oriented content is on these platforms, and what role their algorithms play in presenting it to the troubled young men seeking it out.
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