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by msgodel 303 days ago
It was a big deal when Google started doing it 15 years ago on YouTube. They were explicitly changing weights for recommendations wrt middle eastern videos. At the time it was considered a moral thing because it was done to prevent ISIS from radicalizing people.

I remember warning people at the time they'd do it for domestic political videos, it was really frustrating how no one believed me. It's a little more frustrating that after experiencing people continue to use sites with artificial cybernetics.