[nexa] Extremism pays. That’s why Silicon Valley isn’t shutting it down | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/18/extremism-pays-why-sil...> Zeynep Tufecki is one of the shrewdest writers on technology around. A while back, when researching an article on why (and how) Donald Trump appealed to those who supported him, she needed some direct quotes from the man himself and so turned to YouTube, which has a useful archive of videos of his campaign rallies. She then noticed something interesting. “YouTube started to recommend and ‘autoplay’ videos for me,” she wrote, “that featured white supremacist rants, Holocaust denials and other disturbing content.”[...]