Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in threads about search bias, election influence and big-tech data practices as the most comprehensive video of Epstein's research.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2017 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends reirob · 2017-08 · on “Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users”
Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale [1]. It's worth watching even if it's 1 hour and 23 minutes. [1]: [this video]
Recommends robbedpeter · 2022-02 · on “TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes”
>>The 2020 presidential election monitoring project successfully recruited a diverse group of 732 registered voters in three battleground states: Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina. It preserved more than 500,000 ephemeral experiences on Google, Bing, Yahoo, YouTube, and Facebook. These are the fleeting experiences that Big Tech companies use to influence votes and opinions worldwide and that are normally lost forever. >>A preliminary analysis of the data shows that Google search results (but NOT search results on Bing or Yahoo) had a significant liberal bias – enough to have shifted at least 6 million votes in the months leading up to the election. You need to know the methodology being u
Cites drallison · 2017-12 · on “The search engine manipulation effect and its possible impact on elections [pdf]”
Robert Epstein has given a couple of talks on the search engine effect at Stanford which have been published to YouTube. Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale - YouTube Video for epstein youtube stanford ▶ 1:23:56 [this video] Jun 8, 2017 - Uploaded by stanfordonline EE380: Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale: New Data, a New ... Stanford Seminar - The Search Engine Manipulation Effect ... - YouTube Video for epstein youtube stanford search engine ▶ 1:14:04 [LINK] Oct 29, 2015 - Uploaded by stanfordonline "The Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) and Its Unparalleled Power To Influence How We Think ...