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What goes behind the radicalisation of men and women on YouTube

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What goes behind the radicalisation of men and women on YouTube YouTube has been a godsend for hyper-partisans on all sides. It has allowed them to bypass traditional gatekeepers and broadcast their views to mainstream audiences Technology :-Caleb Cain was a school dropout searching for course. He went to  YouTube . Before long, he was maneuvered into a far-right universe, watching a large number of recordings loaded up with paranoid fears, misogyny and prejudice. “I was mentally conditioned.” Caleb Cain pulled a Glock gun from his belt, took out the magazine and coolly hurled both onto the kitchen counter. “I got it the day after I got passing dangers,” he said. The dangers, Mr. Cain clarified, originated from conservative trolls in light of a video he had posted on YouTube a couple of days sooner. In the video, he recounted to the account of how, as a liberal school dropout attempting to discover his place on the planet, he had gotten sucked into a vortex of far...