[noirdujour]

I'm not aware of any experiments, formal or informal that tries to seek if negative content is promoted more. The article states one experiment with bots saw how quickly the feed would become saturated with majority negative content. But what about the opposite? How quickly does positive content fill the feed if a bot were to engage with inspiring or educational videos? I suspect it'll be slower, though maybe not because of the algorithm itself but because video makers have less incentives to make positive videos, and so there's simply less "good" content to recommend.

[ilyt]

Honestly ? That wouldn't matter that much, purely because the negative one will get engaged much more in the first place. Just look on how bad/controversial news sell vs good news.