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How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right

ONE CLICK AT A TIME

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

Kelly Weill
Kelly Weill
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Kelly Weill

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