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How language is hiding the real internet from you (www.bbc.com)

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is really fascinating. I wonder if the shorter videos in Hindi is related to internet connection speed.

So, in 2024 we examined language-specific samples of English, Hindi, Russian and Spanish YouTube, working with native speakers to validate our language detection tools.

I hope they’ll broaden this in the future to include less widely spoken languages.

We’re building businesses, journalism and regulation on an artificially limited view of the internet, one often filtered through English, popularity and convenience. It's time we looked deeper.

It’s beyond time. Whatever about the internet, we have narrow views of ourselves and each other that is a barrier to tolerance.