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YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest
(lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu)
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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I'm not sure it's just right leaning users. I'm pretty far to the left and I keep ketting anti-trans, anti-covid right wing talking points quite frequently. I keep pressing thumbs down but they keep coming.
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."
Exactly. If you don't want to see them, best thing is to ignore them.
I actually report every single one of them, usually the channel too, for hate speech. that seems to keep them out of my feed