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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by lostmymind66 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:01PM (#20106504)
"They worked so hard to research and create a 2000 word article that accurately reflects the world"

I find this laughable. Many recent articles I've seen are designed to get clicks and have nothing to do with good journalism or research beyond what someone can get from behind a keyboard.

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by kazinator on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:41PM (#20107030)
Okay: they worked so hard to contrive a 2000 word sequence to get clicks using machine learning and whatnot - and then let fReEtHiNkErChAd and 2020BloodInTheStreets chime in at the end.
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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @04:44PM (#20108938)
Because fReEtHiNkErChAd and 2020BloodInTheStreets will each piss some readers off and please others, polarizing the topic and inviting others to participate, thus increasing pageviews and ad exposure. It worked well for a while, but with the growth of Twitter mobs it eventually backfired.
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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by theonlyklas on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:25PM (#20106831)
A lot that I've read in the past few years read like AI has written them. It wouldn't surprise me if major news publishers removed writing positions and replaced them with AI.
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