{% blocktrans trimmed %}
- The YouTube Regrets our volunteers flagged had tons of views, but it’s impossible to tell how many of those views came from YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, because YouTube won’t release this information.
+ The YouTube Regrets our volunteers flagged had tons of views, but it’s impossible to tell how many of those views came from YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, because YouTube won’t release this information.
{% endblocktrans %}
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
{% trans "Reported Videos" as reported_videos %}
{% trans "Other Videos" as other_videos %}
{% trans "views per day" as view_per_day %}
- {% include "./standout-stat.html" with heading=reported_videos number=5794 label=view_per_day classes="mb-5" id="reported-views-per-day-count-up" %}
- {% include "./standout-stat.html" with heading=other_videos number=3312 label=view_per_day id="other-views-per-day-count-up" %}
+ {% include "./standout-stat.html" with heading=reported_videos number=5794 label=view_per_day classes="mb-5" id="reported-views-per-day-count-up" prefix="~" %}
+ {% include "./standout-stat.html" with heading=other_videos number=3312 label=view_per_day id="other-views-per-day-count-up" prefix="~" %}
{% trans "What we do know is that reported videos seemed to accumulate views faster than those that were not." %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %}
- What we do know is at the time they were reported they had racked up a collective 160 million views, an average of 760 thousand views per video, accrued over an average of 5 months that the videos had been up at the time they were reported. It is impossible to tell how many of these views were a result of recommendations, because YouTube won’t release this information.
+ What we do know is at the time they were reported they had racked up a collective 160 million views, an average of 760 thousand views per video, accrued over an average of 5 months that the videos had been up at the time they were reported. It is impossible to tell how many of these views were a result of recommendations, because YouTube won’t release this information.
{% endblocktrans %}
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
{% trans "views per video" as views_per_video %}
- {% include "./standout-stat.html" with number=760 label=views_per_video classes="mb-5" id="views-per-video-count-up" %}
+ {% include "./standout-stat.html" with number=760 label=views_per_video classes="mb-5" id="views-per-video-count-up" prefix="~" suffix="K" %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %}
- When YouTube is called out for recommending borderline content, the company usually boasts that their policy changes have led to a “70% average drop in watch time of this content coming from non-subscribed recommendations in the U.S.” But what about the rest of the world?
+ When YouTube is called out for recommending borderline content, the company usually boasts that their policy changes have led to a “70% average drop in watch time of this content coming from non-subscribed recommendations in the U.S.” But what about the rest of the world?
{% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %}
- Mozilla and 37,380 YouTube users conducted a study to better understand harmful YouTube recommendations. This is what we learned.
+ Mozilla and 37,380 YouTube users conducted a study to better understand harmful YouTube recommendations. This is what we learned.
{% endblocktrans %}
{% trans "Download Full Report" %}
diff --git a/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/intro.html b/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/intro.html
index 5544e2d3a48..e7dc2109e5a 100644
--- a/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/intro.html
+++ b/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/intro.html
@@ -1,28 +1,28 @@
{% load i18n %}
-
+
- {% blocktrans with stories_link='class="fw-bold" href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/youtube-regrets/"' trimmed %}
+ {% blocktrans with stories_link='class="tw-font-bold" href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/youtube-regrets/"' trimmed %}
In 2019, Mozilla collected countless stories from people whose lives were impacted by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. People had been exposed to misinformation, developed unhealthy body images, and became trapped in bizarre rabbit holes. The more stories we read, the more we realized how central YouTube has become to the lives of so many people — and just how much YouTube recommendations can impact their wellbeing.
{% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans with routine_response_url="https://foundation.mozilla.org/blog/congratulations-youtube-now-show-your-work/" trimmed %}
- Yet when confronted about its recommendation algorithm, YouTube’s routine response is to deny and deflect.
+ Yet when confronted about its recommendation algorithm, YouTube’s routine response is to deny and deflect.
{% endblocktrans %}
- {% blocktrans with reporter_link='class="fw-bold" href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/regrets-reporter/"' trimmed %}
+ {% blocktrans with reporter_link='class="tw-font-bold" href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/regrets-reporter/"' trimmed %}
Faced with YouTube’s continuous refusal to engage, Mozilla built a browser extension, RegretsReporter, that allows people to donate data about the YouTube videos they regret watching on the platform.
Through one of the biggest crowdsourced investigations into YouTube, we’ve uncovered new information that warrants urgent attention and action from lawmakers and the public.
{% endblocktrans %}
-
+
{% blocktrans trimmed %}
We now know that YouTube is recommending videos that violate their very own content policies and harm people around the world — and that needs to stop.
{% endblocktrans %}
{% trans "Our research is powered by real YouTube users." %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %}
- Specifically: 37,380 volunteers across 190 countries installed Mozilla’s RegretsReporter browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome.
+ Specifically: 37,380 volunteers across 190 countries installed Mozilla’s RegretsReporter browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome.
{% endblocktrans %}
{% trans "For this report, We gathered from" %}
@@ -17,37 +17,49 @@
{% trans "For this report, We gathered from" %}
{% with reports_count=3362 volunteers_count=1662 countries_count=91 %}
-
-
-
{{ reports_count|intcomma }}
-
{% trans "Reports" %}
-
-
-
{{ volunteers_count|intcomma }}
-
{% trans "Volunteers" %}
-
-
-
{{ countries_count|intcomma }}
-
{% trans "Countries" %}
+
+
+
{{ reports_count|intcomma }}
+
{% trans "Reports" %}
+
+
+
+ {{ volunteers_count|intcomma }}
+
+
{% trans "Volunteers" %}
+
+
+
+ {{ countries_count|intcomma }}
+
+
{% trans "Countries" %}
+
-
{% endwith %}
-
- {% blocktrans trimmed %}
- Reports were submitted between July 2020 - May 2021. Volunteers who downloaded the extension but did not file a report were an important part of our study. Their data — for example, how often they use YouTube — was essential to our understanding of how frequent regrettable experiences are on YouTube and how this varies between countries.
- {% endblocktrans %}
-
-
- {% blocktrans with research_link="https://foundation.mozilla.org/blog/28-reasons-why-youtube-must-change/" trimmed %}
- After delving into the data with a team of research assistants from the University of Exeter, Mozilla came away with three major criticisms of YouTube recommendations: from a problematic algorithm to poor corporate oversight to geographic disparities. And our past research shows that these problems can inflict lasting harm on people.
- {% endblocktrans %}
-
+
+ {% blocktrans trimmed %}
+ Reports were submitted between July 2020 - May 2021. Volunteers who downloaded the extension but did not file a report were an important part of our study.
+ Their data — for example, how often they use YouTube — was essential to our understanding of how frequent regrettable experiences are on YouTube and how this varies between countries.
+ {% endblocktrans %}
+
+
+ {% blocktrans with research_link="https://foundation.mozilla.org/blog/28-reasons-why-youtube-must-change/" trimmed %}
+ After delving into the data with a team of research assistants from the University of Exeter, Mozilla came away with three major criticisms of YouTube recommendations: from a problematic algorithm to poor corporate oversight to
+ geographic disparities. And our past research shows that these problems can inflict lasting harm on people.
+ {% endblocktrans %}
+
{% blocktrans trimmed %}
We set a high bar for what videos we display prominently in our recommendations on the YouTube homepage or through the 'Up next' panel.
{% endblocktrans %}
diff --git a/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/standout-stat.html b/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/standout-stat.html
index 4b033379f8d..cea8c8944f7 100644
--- a/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/standout-stat.html
+++ b/network-api/networkapi/wagtailpages/templates/wagtailpages/pages/youtube-regrets-2021/fragments/standout-stat.html
@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@
{% endif %}
+ {% blocktrans trimmed %}
+ Investigating YouTube's ineffective user controls powered by 22,722 volunteers, Mozilla scrutinized YouTube to determine how much control people actually have over the platform’s recommendation algorithm.
+ This is what we learned.
+ {% endblocktrans %}
+
{% trans 'People feel like they don’t have control over their YouTube recommendations...' %}
+
+ {% blocktrans with 2021_report_link='https://assets.mofoprod.net/network/documents/Mozilla_YouTube_Regrets_Report.pdf' trimmed %}
+ Our 2021 investigation into YouTube’s recommender system uncovered a range of problems on the platform: an opaque algorithm, inconsistent oversight, and geographic inequalities. We also learned that people feel they don’t have control over their YouTube experience — particularly the videos that are recommended to them.
+ {% endblocktrans %}
+
+
+ {% blocktrans with tools_link="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839" trimmed %}
+ YouTube says that people can manage their video recommendations through the feedback tools the platform offers. But do YouTube’s user controls actually work?
+ {% endblocktrans %}
+
+
+ {# This acts as a section separator #}
+
{% trans 'and our study shows that they really don’t.' %}
+
+ {# mobile only image #}
+
+
+
+ {% trans 'Our work is the first-ever experimental audit of YouTube by independent researchers, powered by Mozilla’s RegretsReporter.' %}
+
+
+ {% blocktrans with reporter_link='https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/regrets-reporter/' trimmed %}
+ Using RegretsReporter, an open source tool Mozilla built to study YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, we were able to independently audit YouTube.
+ {% endblocktrans %}
+
+
+
+ {% trans 'We combined qualitative and quantitative insights to paint a more complete picture of the effectiveness — or rather, ineffectiveness — of YouTube’s controls.' %}
+
+
+ {% trans 'We leveraged a massive-scale community to collect our data.' %}
+
+
+ {% trans 'We applied rigorous and powerful research methods including a randomized controlled experiment and a machine learning model.' %}
+