Radical Filter Bubbles: Social Media Personalisation Algorithms and Extremist Content

By Alastair Reed, Joe Whitter, Fabio Votta and Sean Looney

This paper assesses whether social media platforms’ personalisation algorithms promote extremist material, finding evidence that only one platform studied – YouTube – prioritises extremist material by the recommender system.

London: Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) , 2019. 19p.