RadiTube is a search engine that makes the content of radical YouTube communities searchable for journalists and researchers.

Joined October 2020
Today! Join us @rightscon to learn about tech we're developing for human rights defenders. June 8 AMA & tech demo at 12:30 PM EDT w Lab Fellow Erik Van Zummeren @raditube_com: a search engine to identify & counter radical YouTube communities bit.ly/3MqtZwo
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Join us at @RightsCon to learn about the tech we’re developing for human rights defenders. June 8th AMA and tech demo at 12:30 PM EDT with Co-Founder Erik van Zummeren Raditube: a search engine to identify and counter radical YouTube communities @humanrights1st
In less than 30 minutes we'll be presenting at the @AspenPolicyHub #InfoDisorderPrizeCompetition. Please join us through bit.ly/aspeninfoprize
We’re thrilled to introduce the 4 semi-finalist teams for our #InfoDisorderPrizeCompetition! Check the thread for details on each of the exciting projects, and join us on May 3 as the teams demo their projects live to our judges bit.ly/aspeninfoprize 🧵
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Next is @raditube_com with “Narrative Detection and Analysis for YouTube,” an automatic detection and tracing tool for harmful narratives spread through YouTube. Team members are Cameron Ballard, @bernhardlenger, and Erik van Zummeren. We’re excited to see this tool in action!
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This is a start, @ashleyrgold & @axios, but this headline offers a false sense of security. Dozens of active channels on YouTube w/1000s of views still contain content by & supporting the Oathkeepers & their ilk. axios.com/youtube-shuts-down…
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Ontwerpers opgelet! Wegens succes in de herhaling: de call Techneut zoekt Ontwerper 2021 staat nu open (deadline 12 dec). We kijken uit naar mooie samenwerkingen! @raditube_com @Crowdience_NL @ScribitPro @e_mydata
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YouTube's moderation policy is opaque and ad-hoc, and the platform rarely discloses what content has been deleted. Our new browser extension works on top of YouTube and shows the metadata (title, description, transcripts) of removed YouTube videos. extension.raditube.com 1/3
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We have indexed over 80k removed videos, which are permanently stored on the @ArweaveTeam network. Some of the video data we have stored include the recently removed anti-vax videos (Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Mercola) and the QAnon videos that YouTube deleted in October 2020. 2/3
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The goal of the extension is to make YouTube's moderation practices more accountable and enable researchers, journalists, and future historians to research this online discourse. 3/3
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We've put together a report on activity from popular radical YouTube channels over the past year. Learn more about the narratives we found, how creators spread their content, and YouTube's moderation response. reports.raditube.com/report/…
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We tracked the evolution of three conspiratorial themes, and removal of videos with problematic content. With increased moderation, creators regularly promote content on alternative platforms
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We found that less YouTube channels are moving to Bitchute. Gab and Parler remain the most used alt-tech platforms and that Locals is slowly getting more popular.
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Very excited to present our tool today at #CJ2021. We'll be talking in the second session around violence, bias and conspiracies. cj2021.northeastern.edu/
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