A Novel BERT-based Classifier to Detect Political Leaning of YouTube Videos based on their Titles

arXiv:2404.04261v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A quarter of US adults regularly get their news from YouTube. Yet, despite the massive political content available on the platform, to date no classifier has been proposed to identify the political leaning of YouTube videos. To fill this gap, we propose a novel classifier based on Bert -- a language model from Google -- to classify YouTube videos merely based on their titles into six categories, namely: Far Left, Left, Center, Anti-Woke, Right, and …

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