YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content.

  • KinNectar@kbin.run
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    11 months ago

    I am so sick of getting redpilled on YouTube Shorts. On the one hand I know that having the algorithm present content from across the political spectrum is healthy for discourse in some ways, I have had enough Ben Shapiro for my lifetime, thank you. Also it doesn’t seem like the algorithm learns well from the “do not recommend this channel to me” function.