title:: Exploring YouTube And The Spread Of Disinformation : NPR url:: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/986678544/exploring-youtube-and-the-spread-of-disinformation author: output: tags:: [[%tie]], [[m37]], [[btmw]], [[youtube]] topic: status:: # Notes > STARBIRD: We don't have as great insight into YouTube because it's harder to see. It's one of the platforms that's hardest to collect data about. And it's very - it's almost inscrutable for us compared to some other platforms, like Twitter, where we can collect lots of data and look at things. So YouTube fits centrally into the phenomenon, but it actually - it is harder to access for our research teams. # Further References [[202104191515 - Mainstreaming Resentment YouTube Celebrities and the Rhetoric of White Supremacy – Items]] [[202104160834 - A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods - The New York Times]] # Exported Notes