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Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by new_guy on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:40AM (#26930559)
If they are manipulating the data, they're not stupid enough to make it this obvious.
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Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by aww_dang on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:01AM (#26930625)
Isn't that implying a more convoluted conspiracy?

Of course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken.

Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.

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