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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by manfredo on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:04PM (#19001244)
Interestingly, YouTube actually recommends liberal content at a rate substantially higher than conservative content. Centrists content links to liberal content about three times more frequently than it links to conservative content. Is there evidence to corroborate the claim that YouTube is pushing people to extreme content? The data seems to indicate otherwise.

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/does-youtube-facilitate-ri...

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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by shaki-dora on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:19PM (#19002565)
Sure, if CNN is „iberal“, and QAnon is „conservative“.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by manfredo on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:30PM (#19003216)
I'm not sure I follow. The implication of your comment seems to be that extremist content is more conservative. On the whole I agree. Which is why the fact that YouTube steers people towards conservative content less than centrist or liberal content broadly contradicts the claim that YouTube is steering people to radical content.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by bengale on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:14AM (#19005818)
The extremity doesn't seem to be the same in my experience. It could be because I fall slightly more that way that it's able to get a better handle on my preferences but I don't find I get suggested the insanity of the left when I watch more liberal videos in the same way I do when I watch conservative ones. It's a tricky one to measure though.
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