The problem is most people get their news from fucking YouTube for some reason. Everyone at my work conservosphere gets their news from fucking YouTube or NewsMaxx
Everyone says this and I’m sure it’s true but my anecdotal experience is that it knows I’m lefty and recommends me similar content as a result. Maybe it’s because I have autoplay off.
This is my experience also, the algorithm is terrible at throwing my subscriptions into my recommended but I don’t think it ever throws right wing stuff in there.
Do you ever look at conservative stuff for fun? I watch a video of Jordan Peterson or something linked to from lefty reddit and boom, algorithm ruined.
So that’s what people keep telling me will happen, but I watched a More Perfect Union video once and now my recommendations are completely clogged with urban planning and union organization things (I’m primarily a watcher of edu-tainment things, e.g. sci show, CGP Grey, Knowing better, etc)
Yeah I noticed that too. I was trying to find a video about the reality of trans youth lives with testimonies and such and all I could find were angry conservatives spewing hate about trans people
It’s the fucking algorithm. I’ve been active on YouTube since it started. I’ve had a Gmail account since it was in invite only beta. It’s safe to say they know all about my political leanings at this point. Yet, I still get hard right content in shorts all the fucking time no matter how much I block it, or dislike it. It’s crazy…
I’m convinced shorts just feeds you 80% random unrelated videos, the shorts algorithm is actually so garbage. It’a probably just that the creators making shorts are very skewed because they pump out hundreds vs others who make one to none a week.
As someone who considers myself pretty well-informed compared to the average American… I do not usually seek multiple sources. You’re in like the 0.1% of being well-informed, unfortunately.
An old friend of mine turned into an Andrew Tate fan because it YouTube algorithms. When I try to show him evidence of his wrongdoings I can barely find a fucking source in Google and YouTube. It’s maddening. It’s like being gaslit by the internet.
I know this guy at work who in casual conversation said he doesn’t really follow any news. In another conversation he said he thinks trump should win because he would be the best for the economy and biden is tanking the economy… I tried to point out, that the economy wouldn’t matter all that much if the president is leaking the countries nuclear secrets to our enemies and doing project 2025 stuff, but he had no context and so he didn’t seem to believe me.
I get all my news from spiders.
Apparently there's a troubling fly shortage going on.
And the silk purists are trying to outlaw the use of carbon nanotubes.
They’re reading propaganda. This propaganda has made democrats callous and inhumane. The complicity and support for Israel in Gaza, the support of provocation, and antagonism. The democrat has fallen and he does not know it.
It’s also the thought process. Right wing views are mostly knee jerk reactions. Reactions that might be what I world think of at first as well. But left wing is more about breaking things down and realizing it’s more complicated.
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