How Big is YouTube? - Ethan Zuckerman
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How big is YouTube? I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal of social media research focuses on finding unwanted behavior – mis/disinformation, hate speech – on platforms. This isn’t that hard to do: search for “white genocide” or “ivermectin” and count… Read More »How Big is YouTube?
  • kevin_alt2@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    At the time I read it there was one comment on this article: “NOT big enough; that it can’t be wiped away from the surface earth; with a relatively cyber attack from the Alliance. In fact; Google/YouTube will just be one; of 63 communist controlled platforms; that will be completely erased from existence once the order is given.”

    What the heck is “the Alliance”?

    • nevalem@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      An organization that opposes the Galactic Empire. The Alliance is a coalition of rebel cells and resistance groups that formed in response to the Empire’s authoritarian rule.