YouTube and Conspiracy Theories: A Longitudinal Audit of Information Panels
One way that YouTube aims to support its users to make sense of problematic content they find on its platform is through the inclusion of information panels (IPs) in its search results or video watch pages. Such panels, when present, offer topical context from third-party sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia, but also fact-checks or breaking news. What search queries trigger these IPs? Do they appear consistently over time and space? Using 620 query phrases related to conspiracy - doi
- 10.1145/3648188.3675128
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- 979-8-4007-0595-3
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- YouTube and Conspiracy Theories: A Longitudinal Audit of Information Panels
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3648188.3675128
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- Lillie Godinez, Eni Mustafaraj
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- https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675128
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- CC BY 4.0
- summary
- One way that YouTube aims to support its users to make sense of problematic content they find on its platform is through the inclusion of information panels (IPs) in its search results or video watch pages. Such panels, when present, offer topical context from third-party sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia, but also fact-checks or breaking news. What search queries trigger these IPs? Do they appear consistently over time and space? Using 620 query phrases related to conspiracy
- keywords
- YouTube , conspiracy theories , longitudinal audit , content labeling
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- 2024-09-10
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- HT '24: 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Poznan, Poland, September 10-13, 2024
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3648188.3675128
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- Lillie Godinez, Eni Mustafaraj
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- 2024-09-10
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