YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    They’re supposed to enrage you so you use their platform longer, hate-share the videos so others use their platform, etc. They know what they’re doing.

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      11 months ago

      Which is why I don’t share it, and I downvote it.

      Clearly what I need to do next is immediately kill the tab or close the app.