A New Zealand government report released following a right-wing terrorist killing 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques which indicated that Youtube's recommendation algorithm played an significant role in the terrorist's radicalization.The New Zealand government argues that social media platforms like YouTube claim that these algorithms should be publicly available for accountability, and that simple removal and identification is not enough because of cases like the radicalization of the terrorist.

A New Zealand government report released following a right-wing terrorist killing 51 worshippers at two New Sealand mosques which indicated that Youtube's recommendation algorithm played an important role in the terrorist's radicalization.

Moderate

Race, Religion

Psychological harm

The YouTube recommendation algorithm recommends videos to users based on previous user interactions with the platform. It ranks videos by assigning them a score based on performance analytics data and it matches videos to people based on their watch history, and what similar people have watched.

Google

Information and communication

Cognition, Action

machine learning

content learning, recommendation engine, forecasting

New Zealand

New Zealand, YouTube

Google

03/2019

03/2019

Harm caused

Accident

Yes

user history, videos