investigation-youtube-ad-placements

As the methodology states, they compiled a list of 2,039 terms, and did the manual and automated preprocessing work to dedupe that list (the result of which seems to be here [0]). They subsequently vetted the final list in collaboration with Harvard's Shorenstein Center. > Funny enough, I didn't recognize many of those "well-known" terms and every single one of them ended up being white supremacist. You don't recognize the phrases "kkk", "holocaust denial", "white power", "ethnic cleansing", or "daily stormer"? How is that the story's fault that you haven't encountered these well-known phrases and entities? In any case, the code and source list of keywords is all in their repo. You're accusing them of "cherry-picking" – when they've provided the entirety of their search space and API output? If you have a better idea of assessing Youtube'

Their github repo has a link to further description on each hate term. Some are hate groups. Some are deliberate misinformation about marginalized groups. Some are phrases instead to sound non-offensive to a general audience, while edging racist ideas into the mainstream. Also, hate groups tend to cycle through new terminology whenever the previous batch becomes easily recognized by a general audience. https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-youtube-ad-place...

The story links to a Github repo [0] with code, input data, and several notebooks, as well as a lengthy methodology [1]. [0] https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-youtube-ad-place... [1] https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/08/how-we-dis...