Abstract: Dataset for the paper: "It is just a flu: Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube’s Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations" Abstract: The role played by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm in unwittingly promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories is not entirely understood. Yet, this can have dire real-world consequences, especially when pseudoscientific content is promoted to users at critical times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we set out to characterize and detect pseudoscientific misinformation on YouTube....
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