What is BitChute? Characterizing the “Free Speech” Alternative to YouTube
In this paper, we characterize the content and discourse on BitChute, a social video-hosting platform. Launched in 2017 as an alternative to YouTube, BitChute joins an ecosystem of alternative, low content moderation platforms, including Gab, Voat, Minds, and 4chan. Uniquely, BitChute is the first of these alternative platforms to focus on video content and is growing in popularity. Our analysis reveals several key characteristics of the platform. We find that only a handful of channels receive - doi
- 10.1145/3372923.3404833
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- What is BitChute? Characterizing the “Free Speech” Alternative to YouTube
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3372923.3404833
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- Milo Trujillo, Maurício Gruppi, Cody Buntain, Benjamin D. Horne
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- In this paper, we characterize the content and discourse on BitChute, a social video-hosting platform. Launched in 2017 as an alternative to YouTube, BitChute joins an ecosystem of alternative, low content moderation platforms, including Gab, Voat, Minds, and 4chan. Uniquely, BitChute is the first of these alternative platforms to focus on video content and is growing in popularity. Our analysis reveals several key characteristics of the platform. We find that only a handful of channels receive
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- social media, social networks, hate speech, online communities
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- • Social and professional topics →Cultural characteristics; •
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- Milo Trujillo, Maurício Gruppi, Cody Buntain, Benjamin D. Horne
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