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	Podcast:		The Signal
	Episode:		Has YouTube been hijacked?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:17:18
	Publish Date:		2019-07-21 13:00:00
	Description:		The internet can be a pretty dark place, where the nastiest strains of racism and sexism thrive, not to mention some dangerous conspiracy theories. Most of the time you have to go looking for those things, but on YouTube they find you. The platform's critics say its algorithm is being used to push misleading and extremist content, but YouTube denies that. Today we meet an engineer who helped design the system and a guy who blames it for his drift into the alt-right world.
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