Ein Experiment widerspricht dem gängigen Vorwurf, dass die Videoplattform die Gesellschaft spaltet. Doch es gibt Zweifel an der Aussagekraft der Studie.
A study by researchers from Princeton and Harvard examined whether YouTube's algorithmic recommendations lead to radicalization. Using a YouTube-like platform, they tested nearly 9,000 U.S. participants with politically charged videos on topics like gun rights and minimum wage. The results, published in *PNAS*, showed that algorithmic recommendations had little to no effect on participants' political attitudes. However, expert Josephine Schmitt noted that the study's artificial setup may not fully reflect real-world YouTube usage, leaving open the possibility of long-term effects not captured in the experiment.
