FraFabbri / radicalization_youtube

Code for the paper "Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube", published at FAT*2020

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

This repo contains the analyses for the paper Auditing Radicalization Pathways on Youtube.

Due to the sensitivity of the data, the data/helpers necessary to reproduce the analyses are not made available here. We are, however, willing to consider sharing it with other research groups upon request :)

A presentation of the work is available here.

Please cite as:

@inproceedings{ribeiro2020auditing,
  title={Auditing radicalization pathways on youtube},
  author={Horta Ribeiro, Manoel and Ottoni, Raphael and West, Robert and Almeida, Virg{\'\i}lio AF and Meira Jr, Wagner},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
  year={2020}
}

Roughly speaking:

• analyses/overview.ipynb reproduces Fig. 1, and most of the tables in the paper;

• analyses/temporal_analysis.ipynb reproduces Fig. 2.

• analyses/user_analysis.ipynb reproduces Figures 3 and 4.

• analyses/channels_graph.ipynb and analyses/video_graph.ipynb reproduces Fig. 5 and Table 3.