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"YouTube became the social media platform of the Brazilian right," said Mr. Dominguez, ....Members of the nation's newly empowered far right - from grass-roots organizers to federal lawmakers - say their movement would not have risen so far, so fast, without YouTube's recommendation engine. New research has found they may be correct. YouTube's search and recommendation system appears to have systematically diverted users to far-right and conspiracy channels in Brazil. A New York Times investigation in Brazil found that, time and again, videos promoted by the site have upended central elements of daily life. Teachers describe classrooms made unruly by students who quote from YouTube conspiracy videos or who, encouraged by right-wing YouTube stars, secretly record their instructors."

Presents the dramatic story of the pioneering virtual community that changed the way the world communicates, conceived in 1984, and implemented during the end of the 1980s, and available to "Well-beings" who participated in on-line discussions on a myriad of topics.

the online version of the 1993 book The Virtual Community (by Howard Rheingold)