"How over is it?" Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube
"How over is it?" Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube
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“怎么样了?”
DOI:
10.1145/3479556
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Sirivianos, Michael
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作者:
Papadamou, Kostantinos;Zannettou, Savvas;Blackburn, Jeremy;De Cristofaro, Emiliano;Stringhini, Gianluca;Sirivianos, Michael
YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content worldwide. Alas, the platform has also come under fire for hosting inappropriate, toxic, and hateful content. One community that has often been linked to sharing and publishing hateful and misogynistic content are the Involuntary Celibates (Incels), a loosely defined movement ostensibly focusing on men's issues. In this paper, we set out to analyze the Incel community on YouTube by focusing on this community's evolution over the last decade and understanding whether YouTube's recommendation algorithm steers users towards Incel-related videos. We collect videos shared on Incel communities within Reddit and perform a data-driven characterization of the content posted on YouTube.Among other things, we find that the Incel community on YouTube is getting traction and that, during the last decade, the number of Incel-related videos and comments rose substantially. We also find that users have a 6.3% chance of being suggested an Incel-related video by YouTube's recommendation algorithm within five hops when starting from a non Incel-related video. Overall, our findings paint an alarming picture of online radicalization: not only Incel activity is increasing over time, but platforms may also play an active role in steering users towards such extreme content.
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Sylvain Firer-Blaess;C. Fuchs
DOI:
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发表时间:
2019
期刊:
International Conference on Web and Social Media
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影响因子:
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作者:
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