The thing is, there’s no way for an algorithm to know the intent behind why someone wants to see more of a certain kind of content. I get recommendations for flat earth videos because I’ve gone on several spurts of watching them. (It’s a good laugh, what can I say.) Sure, this is anecdotal, but I’m certain so are many other individual viewing habits.

On top of all this, climate denialism is such a fuzzy topic. The science community barely even agrees on many aspects of the data and potential remediations. My point is, whenever these content hosts start adjusting recommendations based on their view of the world, regardless of whether I agree or not, I think we’re all done a disservice. What YouTube’s management define as “reasonable consensus” is most certainly not going to be a moderate position.