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.

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    7 months ago

    What YouTube sees:

    “These videos keep eliciting reactions from users, which means that they prefer to engage with this content. This bodes well for our advertisers.”

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        7 months ago

        I actually report every single one of them, usually the channel too, for hate speech. that seems to keep them out of my feed

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