This is the third investigation in ISD’s Pulling Back the Curtain series which explores different aspects of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. The series consists of four separate investigations examining the recommendations sent to eight U.S.-based YouTube accounts registered with varying ages, genders, and interests over one month. This report examines the recommendations sent to two accounts with an interest in Mommy vloggers.
This is the second investigation in ISD’s Pulling Back the Curtain series which explores different aspects of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. The series consists of four separate investigations examining the recommendations sent to eight U.S.-based YouTube accounts registered with varying ages, genders, and interests over one month. This report examines the recommendations sent to two accounts with an interest in "male lifestyle gurus”.
This is the first investigation in ISD’s Pulling Back the Curtain series which explores different aspects of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. The series consists of four separate investigations examining the recommendations sent to eight U.S.-based YouTube accounts registered with varying ages, genders, and interests over one month. This report examines the recommendations sent to two teenager accounts with an interest in gaming.
This paper is a timely examination of political communication and media trust in the age of generative AI systems, analysing real-world examples of its use in a political context. It also evaluates emerging technical and policy solutions and presents recommendations and reflections for policy practitioners.
An intro to AI's intersection with focus areas covered by ISD's Digital Policy Lab (DPL), including key concepts, challenges, and solutions. Informed by research and informal interviews, it contributes to policy discussions within the DPL and beyond.
This guide provides a low-threshold introduction to the strategic-communicative handling of information manipulation, including the establishment of a monitoring environment and StratCom measures, for those responsible for communication in MPs' offices, ministries and public authorities.
This is the German translation of a policy paper, providing an overview on the risks of emerging platforms and technologies, and identifying a series of policy implications. It analyses ‘decentralised’, ‘generative’, and ‘immersive’ technologies regarding their impact on disinformation, hate and extremism.
This is the German translation of a DPL paper proposing measures to assess and mitigate online gender-based violence, emphasising the connections with different extremisms.
This report is the German translation of our case studies on Telegram, Discord and Odysee seeking to apply different methodological approaches to analyse platforms that primarily present technological, ethical and legal, difficulties for researchers.
This report is the French translation of our case studies on Telegram, Discord and Odysee seeking to apply different methodological approaches to analyse platforms that primarily present technological, ethical and legal, difficulties for researchers.
