Analysts working with top YouTube channels report Shorts older than 30 days receive fewer views. YouTube hasn't confirmed any algorithm change. Retention analysts say Shorts older than 28-30 days are ...

YouTube has two billion active monthly users and uploads 500 hours of content every minute. Twenty five percent of U.S. adults get their news from YouTube, and 60% of regular users “use the platform ...

A new study conducted by the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab) at the University of Pennsylvania sheds light on a pressing question: Does YouTube's algorithm radicalize young Americans?

"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

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"Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of [this] story: an aimless young man—usually white, frequently interested in video games—visits YouTube looking for ...