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Re:Jonathan Albright, a Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News by untog on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:35PM (#17633827)
This is a pretty interesting account of the recommendation algorithms at work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

It links to this WSJ investigation:

How YouTube Drives People to the Internet’s Darkest Corners https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-youtube-drives-viewers-to-t...

I suspect people who watch a lot of YouTube aren't as badly affected as there is a large dataset to recommend from.

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