Duncan Watts' new study is featured, Penn Today & Annenberg School for Communication

Penn Today and the Annenberg School for Communication features Duncan Watts for his new study. The study from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed. 

Citations:

"The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People." Annenberg School for Communication, H Reissman & D Gardiner, February 19, 2024. 

"The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People." Penn Today, H Reissman & D Gardiner, February 20, 2024. 

D J Watts, et al. 2024. "Causally Estimating the Effect of YouTube’s Recommender System Using Counterfactual Bots," PNAS.