YouTube's recommendation algorithm has been subject to widespread criticism from all corners for quite some time. w, Firefox owner Mozilla wants YouTube to fix issues with its recommendation algorithm that lead users to harmful videos on platform. Mozilla recently launched a new campaign called #YouTubeRegret. As part of it, Mozilla wants you to submit your story (via Google form) about how you might have ended up watching a wrongly recommended video on YouTube.

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#YouTubeRegret

"Once, at 2 a.m., you searched YouTube for “Did aliens build Stonehenge?” Ever since, your YouTube recommendations have been a mess: Roswell, wormholes, Illuminati. YouTube’s recommendation engine can lead users down bizarre rabbit holes — and y’re t always harmless. Sometimes y drive people toward misinformation and extreme viewpoints," read description of campaign.

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Mozilla said y have a meeting with YouTube in two weeks where y will ask YouTube to "make serious commitments towards fixing this problem." Mozilla added reason y are collecting user stories discussing how y got to point A to point B, is to pressurise YouTube into fixing ir recommendation algorithm.

Ex-YouTube engineer comments

Commenting on Mozilla's campaign, ex-YouTube engineer Guillaume Chaslot, who happens to be one of vocal critics of YouTube's recommendation algorithm, said: "w when you see absurd/hateful recommendations on YouTube, you have somewhere to report by which video it started."

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Recently, YouTube said it removed over 1 lakh videos, over 17,000 channels and 500 million comments hate speech. YouTube has also been cracking down on 'violent' and 'mature' videos targetting children. Last month, YouTube also terminated account of a 14-year-old for hate-speech. In June, YouTube tightened its policies around harmful videos, days after IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad warned against misuse of digital platforms in India.

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