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Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems

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Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems

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This article examines how online recommender systems, particularly on YouTube, can facilitate exposure to extreme right-wing content. Using datasets of English- and German-language extremist channels, it analyses recommendation patterns, content networks, and the role of platform algorithms in creating pathways toward increasingly homogeneous ideological environments.

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New Technologies and the Online Dimension

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English 

Date:

07-07-2026

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PPHS

Source:

Social Science Computer Review, 2015