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A video about Veritasium, Science YouTube, misinformation and Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now (or maybe not).
*Chapters*
00:00 Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
00:40 1. Driverless Cars
08:07 2. YouTubers for Sale
14:58 Surfshark Spot
16:52 3. Veritasium vs. the Technophobes
24:54 4. Lying With Statistics
34:15 5. Misinformation by Omission
45:22 6. The Limited Futures of youTube Propaganda
*Some Copy about the Video for the YouTube Algorithm*
In this month's video, we're looking at a video by Veritasium. One of the biggest science channels (or, indeed, educational channels) on the YouTube platform, Veritasium makes videos which aim to challenge our preconceptions about physics, science and the world more broadly.
In July 2021, they released a video called
Finally someone made a video about it, I stopped following that channel after my science feed got filled with corporate ads disguised as educational videos.
I used to really like his physics videos, but I agree that he got too into integrating ads.
Like, when your make an entire science video around a corporate partnership, you really have take a step back and reevaluate how you’re going about being a “science educator”.