List of active CHIAROs (they can be many, imagine add your own if you’ve a research question)

This list can be updated by opening a pull request in this config file.

• Draghi, Italian specific experiment about the new government lead from Mario Draghi — of course we would love to do less national-popular topic but that’s the cost of aiming mainstream.
• Amsterdam Winter School, an experiment among students. Final presentation.
• US election simple example, a small selection of election related term selected by non-experts.
• Four animals, our small example on how to create your own CHIARO: open a tutorial with a large room for improvement.

Why we did it?…

YouTube search answers is NEVER the same between users!

A profile in New York do a search query:

Super Tuesday: California, Texas Election Results | (Live Stream Recording) ⏵

7:56:04 NBC News Streamed

UX in [EN], picked when: 5 hours old, views 1220, position 1

Election results are in for the 2020 Texas primary runoffs ⏵

3:15 WFAA

UX in [EN], picked when: an hour old, views 2730, position 2

Michigan Primary Election: Race results ⏵

1:52 WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel

UX in [EN], picked when: an hour old, views 9305, position 3

The same morning, a profile in Canada do exactly the same:

Kyrgyzstan annuls parliamentary election results after protests | DW News ⏵

3:50 DW News

UX in [EN], picked when: a few seconds old, views 2493, position 1

Kyrgyzstan annuls parliamentary election results after overnight protests ⏵

5:23 Al Jazeera English

UX in [EN], picked when: a few seconds old, views 568, position 2

Kyrgyzstan: Clashes erupt during Bishkek protest over election results ⏵

1:14 Ruptly

UX in [EN], picked when: a minute old, views 84309, position 3

YouTube claims this happen because of regional specialization

— but with CHIARO you can do independent analysis and spot two other phenomenas:

A blue collar worker from the rust belt do this search query:

Trump, Biden face off in debate filled with interruptions, insults and chaos ⏵

4:12 CBS This Morning

UX in [EN], picked when: 2 minutes old, views 129139, position 1

Trump mocks Biden for wearing a face mask ⏵

2:20 CBS Evening News

UX in [EN], picked when: 3 hours old, views 50972, position 2

Trump, former Vice President Biden to face off for the first time in Tuesday debate ⏵

3:19 CBS This Morning

UX in [EN], picked when: 3 minutes old, views 75896, position 3

An so does a white collar worker (in the same state and moment):

Joe Biden: President Trump ‘Does Not Want To Face Me Because I Will Beat Him’ | TODAY ⏵

7:09 TODAY

UX in [EN], picked when: 4 hours old, views 237699, position 1

Trump and Biden face off on protests and Black Lives Matter ⏵

7:13 ABC News

UX in [EN], picked when: 3 minutes old, views 446554, position 2

Trump, Biden face off in debate filled with interruptions, insults and chaos ⏵

4:12 CBS This Morning

UX in [EN], picked when: 2 minutes old, views 129139, position 3

Profiling enable advanced form of content filtering, and distinguish from censorship it's complex

— especially if it is an acceptable justification the ''personalized results for Users' interest'':

This happens on my computer:

TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY (OFFICIAL VIDEO) ⏵

3:57 Tones And I

UX in [EN], picked when: 1 year old, views 1312101209, position 1

Best Monkey Moments | BBC Earth ⏵

16:57 BBC Earth

UX in [EN], picked when: 3 months old, views 562579, position 2

Cute Baby Monkey Drinking Milk With Big Milk Bottle| Good Health Lyly Sleep Milk ⏵

6:32 MONKEY LYLY

UX in [EN], picked when: 7 months old, views 58460, position 3

This from computer used by 5 y.o. kid to watch cartoons:

TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY (OFFICIAL VIDEO) ⏵

3:57 Tones And I

UX in [EN], picked when: 1 year old, views 1312109774 position 1

Curious George 🐵Maple Monkey Madness | Cartoons For Kids | WildBrain Cartoons ⏵

24:32 WildBrain – Kids Videos

UX in [EN], picked when: 8 months old, views 6183423, position 2

Cartoons For Children - Alien Monkeys - Animation For Kids ⏵

28:12 For Kids TV

UX in [IT], picked when: 2 years old, views 2478533, position 3

Takeaway: there is personalization on search results even if non of the above browser is logged in youtube.

CHIARO is helpful tool disigned to spotlight and list queries from many groups of people so we can see which content is algorithmicly promoted or shadowly banned

Because nor we or anyone else can’t say what is the best algorithm for you. We are here to remind you that your agency is not the one of Google.

In the same way a content is preferred for a specific profile, then something else get hidden

— in the name of that digital prejudice that a profile is

CHIARO is about all of this: We though your list of queries might cover aspects we couldn’t figure out as significant. For us, algorithmic transparency is pointless if we do not enable individuals and digitally organized research groups. We don’t pursue a victory in having platforms accountable only by teams of experts. These companies affect us all; we urge to reach a broader understanding of this phenomenon.

About us

1. Tracking Exposed manifesto.
2. Past analysis and publications, since 2016 we run a methodology to independently assess impact of algorithmic personalization.
3. Youtube collaborative analysis in time of COVID-19, our last experiment covid related
4. Workshop and talks, in Berlin, DisruptionLab, we experimented the search analysis comparisin and since the CHIARO concept was born. This is a quick prototype and, because all of our software is free software with AGPL-3 license, please consider contribute.