Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it in discussions of sponsored science content and Veritasium's credibility, usually as the go-to critique.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tom Nicholas

Topic

youtube sponsorship influence

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This video may be worth a watch: [VIDEO] Side note: I don't really agree with a lot of his other videos. Yet I am sharing this one, because I believe it's worthwhile and am not taking his other videos into account for a context that …

• I was quite disappointed by his video on self-driving cars. It presented a very one-sided view and felt like a puff piece (and, indeed, it was sponsored by Waymo). Tom Nicholas did a good job breaking down the problems with it: [VIDEO]

• You may be interested to see this critique of Veritasium which cooled my views on the channel significantly since I saw it: [VIDEO]