LLMMedium
YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Allegedly Promoted Climate Misinformation Content
- Occurred
- Feb 1, 2019
- Published
- Jan 29, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
YouTube’s recommendation system and its focus on views and watched time were alleged by an advocacy group to have driven people towards climate denial and misinformation videos.
Developers
- YouTube
Deployers
- YouTube
Harmed parties
- YouTube users
- YouTube climate-skeptic users
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic recommendation system promoting misinformation fits LLM category as it involves AI-driven content curation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8