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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by picometer on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:41PM (#23263924)
The essential, underlying problem here is that YouTube is a corporate product, just as you say, and yet still has a major influence on the population's aggregate belief, due to its scale of adoption. This is an emergent phenomenon, not a narrative.
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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by root_axis on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:14PM (#23264436)
> YouTube is a corporate product, just as you say, and yet still has a major influence on the population's aggregate belief

What is your evidence for this? There are so many other sources of influence in this world that I find this idea completely at odds with reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub...

Considering the content of YouTube's top channels I think the evidence isn't in favor of that suggestion that YouTube has a noteworthy impact on "the population's aggregate belief"

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