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by iNane9000 1813 days ago
“Art Garfunkel music video, and was then recommended a highly-sensationalised political video titled “Trump Debate Moderator EXPOSED as having Deep Democrat Ties, Media Bias Reaches BREAKING Point.”

It was much harder to figure out the connection on that one. But seriously, most of this is just demographics. It’s not like there’s a conspiracy to control information or anything crazy like that. I remember the panic about the creepy kids cartoons. It’s just algorithms doing their thing. Get used to it.
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enumjorge 1813 days ago
> It’s just algorithms doing their thing. Get used to it.

Given how much influence some of these platforms have on people, how about the companies running them fix their stuff? We could also introduce legislation to make them fix it. Not sure why we have to get used to it.

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Nasrudith 1813 days ago
That influence rhetoric is so pervasive despite the transparent dishonesty that is an elephant in the room. So when are we going to shutdown the BBC and stop best selling authors from writing because they have "too much" influnce? Sorry Steven Spielberg - you had too much influence on film already so it is retirement for you! That would be considered unthinkable and horribly dystopian.

Yet it is okay if standard special pleadings #1 and #7 are applied (in this case "But it is people I don't like so it is okay!" and "It is new and scary so it is okay!").

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SllX 1813 days ago
Honestly I wonder how much of it is just peoples own personalized recommendations and how much of it is general recommendations.

I have a hard rule not to use YouTube for any sort of news or politics, and the algorithm accommodates that very well. I’m sure if I created a new account, it would start off recommending me whatever BS is popular across YouTube at the time of creation, but if I used it exactly like I use my current account, I think the algorithm would accommodate that. I actually like YouTube, which seems to be an unpopular opinion in some places.

The only thing I can’t seem to get rid of, permanently, are the stupid banners of videos that YouTube adds in about COVID, or at the time of the election, that crap, and some other nonsense. I mean if I keep clicking the X to get that out of my face, isn’t that a strong signal I never want to see that crap or any of those topics again?

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