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Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

Tom Nicholas · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Media, journalism & propagandaInternet culture & memesSelf-driving & autonomous vehicles

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “This video may be worth a watch”

    Worthwhile critique of YouTube sponsorship propaganda.

    alexb_, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “Kodak factory tour: How does Kodak make film? [video]”

  2. “Tom Nicholas did a good job breaking down the problems with it”

    Breaks down problems with Veritasium's sponsored self-driving video.

    AlexandrB, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Entropy: The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics [video by Veritasium]”

  3. “You may be interested to see this critique of Veritasium which cooled my views on the channel significantly”

    Critique of Veritasium that changed the commenter's view.

    TaylorAlexander, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: veritasium, sponsored content, self-driving cars, science youtube, misinformation

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