• @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    89 months ago

    Most platforms lead people to more of what they already believe. If you watch one video from the wrong YouTuber, your entire feed will be nothing but neoconservatives.

    • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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      19 months ago

      Yeah, I really hated the new Star Wars trilogy, and so watched a few reviews of them. This caused YouTube to recommend me more and more nuttier right-wing videos, because many negative reviews of those movies were done by right wingers (like Geeks & Gamers and Nerdrotic) that followed these up by more and more “woke”-critical videos over time.

      It took years to retrain the algorithm that I’m not a right-wing nutjob.