THE VIDEO SHELF · algorithmic manipulation
Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Psychologist Robert Epstein presents a Stanford EE380 colloquium on how internet algorithms such as search rankings can manipulate opinions, purchases and votes at massive scale. He also describes a new monitoring system for tracking such influence.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in threads about search bias, election influence and big-tech data practices as the most comprehensive video of Epstein's research.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Stanford Online
- Topic
- algorithmic manipulation
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2022
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