This is just for YouTube shorts, but I notice a huge swathe of right wing content being blasted at me whenever I foolishly stray onto that part of the app. I'll get anything from Tate to Rogan to obscure 'Woke-critical' content straight away.
Nothing about it suggests other sites do the same thing, but if right wing content is driving more engagement than left wing content through outrage alone it stands to reason that any reinforcement learning would prioritise it.
There is a study on the right wing nature of the Shorts algorithm: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/10...
Nothing about it suggests other sites do the same thing, but if right wing content is driving more engagement than left wing content through outrage alone it stands to reason that any reinforcement learning would prioritise it.