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How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right

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Former extremists say they were sucked in by propaganda as teenagers, thanks to an algorithm’s dark side.

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For David Sherratt, like so many teenagers, far-right radicalization began with video game tutorials on YouTube. He was 15 years old and loosely liberal, mostly interested in “Call of Duty” clips.

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