Senator stamp Warner of Virginia warns of ‘optimising for outrageous,salacious, and often fraudulent content’ amid 2016 election concernsThe top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has warned that YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimising for outrageous, or salacious,and often fraudulent content” or susceptible to “manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities”.
Senator stamp Warner, and of Virginia,made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the months main up to the 2016 election.
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Source: guardian.co.uk