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With YouTube's growing importance as a news platform, its recommendation system came under increased scrutiny. Recognizing YouTube's recommendation system as a broadcaster of media, we explore the applicability of laws that require…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Hendrik Heuer , Hendrik Hoch , Andreas Breiter , Yannis Theocharis

With billions of users and an immense volume of daily uploads, YouTube has become an attractive target for cybercriminals aiming to leverage its vast audience. The platform's openness and trustworthiness provide an ideal environment for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Iman Vakilinia

Clickbait detection in tweets remains an elusive challenge. In this paper, we describe the solution for the Zingel Clickbait Detector at the Clickbait Challenge 2017, which is capable of evaluating each tweet's level of click baiting. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Yiwei Zhou

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the online sharing of medical information, with videos representing a large fraction of such online sources. Previous studies have however shown that more than half of the health-related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Rui Hou , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Stacy Loeb , Rada Mihalcea

Online news outlets operate predominantly on an advertising-based revenue model, compelling journalists to create headlines that are often scandalous, intriguing, and provocative -- commonly referred to as clickbait. Automatic detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Marija Anđelić , Dominik Šipek , Laura Majer , Jan Šnajder

Often clickbait articles have a title that is phrased as a question or vague teaser that entices the user to click on the link and read the article to find the explanation. We developed a system that will automatically find the answer or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Oliver Johnson , Beicheng Lou , Janet Zhong , Andrey Kurenkov

Accelerated by the tremendous increase in Internet bandwidth and storage space, video data has been generated, published and spread explosively, becoming an indispensable part of today's big data. In this paper, we focus on reviewing two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Zuxuan Wu , Ting Yao , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Physics education research on explanatory videos has experienced a boost in recent years. Due to the vast number of explanatory videos available online, e.g. on YouTube, finding videos of high explaining quality is a challenging task for…

This paper presents the results and conclusions of our participation in the Clickbait Challenge 2017 on automatic clickbait detection in social media. We first describe linguistically-infused neural network models and identify informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

Conspiracy theories are increasingly a subject of research interest as society grapples with their rapid growth in areas such as politics or public health. Previous work has established YouTube as one of the most popular sites for people to…

Action recognition is so far mainly focusing on the problem of classification of hand selected preclipped actions and reaching impressive results in this field. But with the performance even ceiling on current datasets, it also appears that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Hilde Kuehne , Ahsan Iqbal , Alexander Richard , Juergen Gall

YouTube is a rich source of cover songs. Since the platform itself is organized in terms of videos rather than songs, the retrieval of covers is not trivial. The field of cover song identification addresses this problem and provides…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Simon Hachmeier , Robert Jäschke

In the nascent days of e-content delivery, having a superior product was enough to give companies an edge against the competition. With today's fiercely competitive market, one needs to be multiple steps ahead, especially when it comes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Everaldo Aguiar , Saurabh Nagrecha , Nitesh V. Chawla

Clickbaits are catchy headlines that are frequently used by social media outlets in order to allure its viewers into clicking them and thus leading them to dubious content. Such venal schemes thrive on exploiting the curiosity of naive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Amrith Rajagopal Setlur

In order to expand their reach and increase website ad revenue, media outlets have started using clickbait techniques to lure readers to click on articles on their digital platform. Having successfully enticed the user to open the article,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Vaibhav Kumar , Mrinal Dhar , Dhruv Khattar , Yash Kumar Lal , Abhimanshu Mishra , Manish Shrivastava , Vasudeva Varma

YouTube is one of the most popular platforms for streaming of user-generated video. Nowadays, professional YouTubers are organized in so called multi-channel networks (MCNs). These networks offer services such as brand deals, equipment, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Christian Koch , Moritz Lode , Denny Stohr , Amr Rizk , Ralf Steinmetz

The Internet has become an essential part of children's and adolescents' daily life. Social media platforms are used as educational and entertainment resources on daily bases by young users, leading enormous efforts to ensure their safety…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sultan Alshamrani , Ahmed Abusnaina , David Mohaisen

The role of recommendation algorithms in online user confinement is at the heart of a fast-growing literature. Recent empirical studies generally suggest that filter bubbles may principally be observed in the case of explicit recommendation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Camille Roth , Antoine Mazières , Telmo Menezes

The presence of bugs in video games can bring significant consequences for developers. To avoid these consequences, developers can leverage gameplay videos to identify and fix these bugs. Video hosting websites such as YouTube provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrew Truelove , Shiyue Rong , Eduardo Santana de Almeida , Iftekhar Ahmed

Short video platforms, such as YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok, are used by billions of users globally. These platforms expose users to harmful content, ranging from clickbait or physical harms to misinformation or online hate. Yet, detecting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Claire Wonjeong Jo , Miki Wesołowska , Magdalena Wojcieszak