Andy Guess and Brandon Stewart Featured in SPIA's Research Record: "YouTube’s Algorithm and its Effect on Political Polarization"

March 26, 2025

"A team of researchers conducted experiments on two political issues — gun control and minimum wage — and included just under 9,000 users. In the design, the researchers allowed users to watch videos on a custom-built YouTube-like platform and choose videos from experimentally manipulated recommendations based on YouTube’s own internal algorithm." Read the full research paper and the story from SPIA.

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