explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The Problem With Facebook
2veritasium · 3 HN recommenders · 9 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 9 months (2014–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 19 other explainer videos tagged Tech industry & business models, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 9 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 2.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
77% of its 13 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- 2veritasium
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Tech industry & business models. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Problem With FacebookCurrent video | 3 | 9 | 77% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.explainer · Tom Scott | 13 | 10 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| How Airlines Quietly Became Banksexplainer · Wendover Productions | 5 | 3 | 38% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| This is why we can't have nice thingsexplainer · Veritasium | 4 | 4 | 40% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next”. Its short rationale: Derek Muller describes Facebook feed manipulation observations.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “A Facebook bot purge clobbered USA Today”. Its short rationale: Exposes fraud and bots on Facebook.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads”. Its short rationale: Analysis showing Facebook ad metrics are unreliable.