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YouTube and transgender people

YouTube is a social media platform that has both benefited and harmed trans people.

It has been an important place for transgender YouTubers to share their experiences and views.

It has also been a pipeline for anti-trans radicalization.

Ribeiro 2019 study

“Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube” examines how YouTube algorithms in the 2010s infected viewers with recommendations from the alt-right, alt-lite, and intellectual dark web. The kinds of radicalization included anti-trans radicalization. Below are the channels analyzed.

Alt-right channels

Alt-lite channels

Intellectual dark web channels

References

Lewis, Rebecca (September 18, 2018). Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube. Data & Society https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/

Ribeiro MH, Ottoni R, West R, Almeida VAF, Meira W (2019). Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube. arXiv.org (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08313

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