/ YouTube Content for UC Davis en /news/podcasts-and-shows/the-backdrop/episode/muhammad-haroon-social-media-algorithms-political-radicalization A new study from UC Davis suggests that artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms on sites like YouTube and TikTok can play a role in political radicalization. In this episode, UC Davis computer science Ph.D. student Muhammad Haroon, who led the study, discusses how the study was designed, what the team found, and a new digital tool they created to mitigate the radicalizing effect of social media platform AI algorithms. December 13, 2022 - 12:24am Soterios J Johnson /news/podcasts-and-shows/the-backdrop/episode/muhammad-haroon-social-media-algorithms-political-radicalization /blog/how-automated-youtube-recommendations-foster-polarization UC Davis computer scientists create YouTube Audit site, showing how recommendation algorithms steer left- or right-leaning users to more extreme content. August 25, 2022 - 11:58am Andy Fell /blog/how-automated-youtube-recommendations-foster-polarization