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"We found 18 [Youtube] channels likely associated with this campaign that made videos publicly available, in English and with content that appeared to be politi
by shpx 9y ago
"We found 18 [Youtube] channels likely associated with this campaign that made videos publicly available, in English and with content that appeared to be political (These channels also posted non-political videos, e.g., personal travelogues). There were 1,108 such videos uploaded, representing 43 hours of content and totaling 309,000 U.S. views from June 2015 to November 2016. These videos generally had very low view counts; only around 3 percent had more than 5,000 views. These channels’ videos were not targeted to the U.S. or to any particular sector of the U.S. population."
- AaronFriel 9y agoThat seems like a low count of channels, videos, and hours, does that include the content existing channels were paid to create? e.g.: the divisive messaging on Black Lives Matter, where the Internet Research Agency was found to have paid existing content creators to post messages for or against the organization.