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Genius: McGrady's team applied a technique used for telephone opinion surveys (random digit dialing) to collect a presumably representative sample of all videos stored in the opaque and bottomless #YouTube database. They uncovered what they call a largely invisible deep-youtube. They recommend we no longer call YouTube a platform, bur rathen an infrastructure.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/?gift=m7A4xd1YdUQAlZ44BfAFppncZVFOornqTF25b3ApgIY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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