Re:On YouTube’s recommendation system
by emkoemko on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:22PM
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if you try watch any independent news, YouTube will never recommend more of it but will give you MSNBC,CNN etc its bad, years ago the algorithm was very good,it would give you a mix of what your into and new interesting stuff now it seems like its pushing corporate content.
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Re:On YouTube’s recommendation system
by deanCommie on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:53PM
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What do you consider "independent news"?
The majority of "independent news" have a highly partisan or highly unreliable tilt (both to the Left and to the Right): https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/
Interestingly enough, most people complain about the opposite: that if you watch some piece of slightly tilted piece of content on YouTube, the recommendation goes wholehog and pushes you towards the same radicalization direction, and so you start by watching someone complaining about Feminist Frequency and before you notice you're getting recommended White Nationalist content.
If anything it's probably good that if you're watching "independent news", that the algorithm tries to moderate you with some mainstream content...
"Moderate" you with some mainstream content? Honestly that sounds like a euphemism for programming or brain washing.
Re:On YouTube’s recommendation system
by deanCommie on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:02AM
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Is de-radicalization itself a form of radicalization?