CLOSE The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by GOP senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias. Their focus includes Section 230, a law relating to unfettered internet speech. (Oct. 28) AP DomesticA Google-funded report examines the relationship between white supremacists and the internet, but it makes scant reference – all of it positive – to YouTube, the company’s platform that many experts blame more than any other for driving people to extremism.The report, by Jigsaw, a “tech incubator” that has operated within Google for the past decade, draws from interviews with dozens of former extremists and describes how the internet is a breeding ground for hate groups.Study after study has shown that YouTube serves as a megaphone for white supremacists and other hate groups and a pipeline for recruits. YouTube’s algorithm has been found to direct users to extreme content, sucking them into violent ideologies. “They’re underemphasizing the role that their own technology and their own platforms have in pushing people towards extremism,” said Bridget Todd, a writer and host of the podcast “There are No Girls on the Internet.”Biden urged to confront extremism:Unlike Trump, Biden expected to make domestic terrorism a focusQAnon and other dark forces:How they are radicalizing Americans as the COVID-19 pandemic rages“Individuals…
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Google think tank's report on white supremacy says little about YouTube, blamed for its role in …
