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Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

Tom Nicholas · 2.7M views · 2021-10-20 · 51:36

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Overview

Tom Nicholas critiques Veritasium's sponsored video on driverless cars, using it to examine YouTube sponsorships, science-channel credibility and how statistics and misinformation can be used in branded content.

On Hacker News

HN cites it in discussions of sponsored science content and Veritasium's credibility, usually as the go-to critique.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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Media, journalism & propagandaInternet culture & memesSelf-driving & autonomous vehicles
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veritasiumsponsored contentself-driving carsscience youtubemisinformation

What people said

TaylorAlexander · 2023-12 · Recommendation

You may be interested to see this critique of Veritasium which cooled my views on the channel significantly since I saw it: [VIDEO]

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AlexandrB · 2023-07 · Recommendation

I was quite disappointed by his video on self-driving cars. It presented a very one-sided view and felt like a puff piece (and, indeed, it was sponsored by Waymo). Tom Nicholas did a good job breaking down the problems with it: [VIDEO]

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alexb_ · 2022-03 · Recommendation

This video may be worth a watch: [VIDEO] Side note: I don't really agree with a lot of his other videos. Yet I am sharing this one, because I believe it's worthwhile and am not taking his other videos into account for a context that doesn't matter :)

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