The YouTube Effect (2023)

YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destroy not only the platform, but the entire Internet.
- Released
- 2023-07-07
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Alex Winter
- TMDB rating
- 5.4/10 from 8 votes
Cast
- Steve Chen as Self - YouTube Co-Founder
- Jillian C. York as Self - Author, Free Expression Activist
- Hany Farid as Self - Professor, UC Berkeley, Computer Science and School of Information (voice)
- Talia Lavin as Self - Journalist, Author (voice)
- Anthony Padilla as Self - YouTube Creator, Smosh
- Ian Hecox as Self - YouTube Creator, Smosh (voice)
- Susan Wojcicki as Self - Former YouTube CEO
- Nitasha Tiku as Self -Tech Culture Reporter, The Washington Post (voice)
- Becca Lewis as Self - Digital Media Researcher (voice)
- Natalie Wynn as Self - YouTube Creator, ContraPoints
- Caleb Cain as Self - YouTube Creator, Faraday Speaks
- Brianna Wu as Self - Software Engineer, Video Game Developer
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