I turned off the default autoplay feature on YouTube, and here is why I did it. YouTube’s autoplay starts playing a new video ...

YouTube's "Not Interested" button blocks 88% of unwanted recommendations in tests but only 11% in real-world usage, Mozilla research reveals.

New information about how various factors influence YouTube’s video recommendation algorithm is revealed by members of the team responsible for working on it. Having only been implemented in 2016, we ...

At the first VidCon since 2019, YouTube’s top earner in the U.S., MrBeast, got on stage to talk to YouTube’s director of discovery Todd Beaupré about one of the biggest questions on creators’ minds: ...

In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Google's algorithm was under fire for purportedly promoting conspiracy theories that flourished on 4chan's controversial /pol/ channel. SEE ALSO: Google ...

YouTube’s proprietary AI algorithm is at the heart of the company’s success, and it’s secrecy is key to continued Internet video dominance. However, a recent report from Mozilla, found YouTube’s ...

YouTube’s Related video algorithm has been accused of some pretty heinous things in recent years -- censorship, conspiracy theory-mongering, and far-right radicalization to list a few -- but none have ...

TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour. YouTube, which has more than a ...

YouTube wants to make sure it doesn’t recommend 9/11 conspiracy theories to unsuspecting viewers anymore: The Google-owned video service is tweaking its recommendation algorithms to stop recommending ...

Bloomberg reports that YouTube staffers wanted to curb the spread of toxic and incendiary videos on the site. But executives wouldn’t do it. We look at accusations that YouTube prioritizes engagement ...

Google’s list of developments to YouTube Music in February and March is here and includes some notable additions (like to the radio algorithm) that weren’t already spotted. The YouTube Music team says ...