White House YouTube Dislike Manipulation
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#2Totally not dislike bots.
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#3Totally not dislike bots.
Assuming sarcasm, that was my first thought as well. Although it's possible there is something nefarious going on, I assume the White House attracts a disproportionate number of bots and this could potentially be accounted for by purge of dislikes by bots.
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#4The article implies something nefarious going on here, but there are plenty of entirely rational innocent explanations. i.e. the videos are attracting a large quantity of spam dislikes, and YouTube is bulk-removing them.
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#5This website also contains climate change denial and scare quotes around the word scientist.
We should be more skeptical of sites like this.
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#6It seems obvious there would be plenty of "legitimate" dislikes coming, as probably a lot of people who followed this YouTube channel in the past 4 years were Trump supporters, and now the channel features Biden. Trump supporters still subscribed would dislike this content. I wonder if the same happened at the last transition.
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#7Totally not dislike bots.
As bad as it looks, it could be an automated attempt to protect the system from manipulation. As such, I find the author's conspiratorial tone somewhat unjustified. (For example, the comment about 1 am probably has little to do with doing it when people are unlikely to notice it and more to do when maintenance is done.)
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#8YT also removes millions of likes/views, for example on K-pop videos which are fake-streamed by their "armies" of fans.
There are tutorials on the net on how to "ethically", "honestly" increase view counts on your favourite band, with stuff like no more than 1 watch every 20 minutes:
https://twitter.com/bstwings_views/status/129646245602223718...
So it's not easy to tell what's going on here, they could be inauthentic dislikes.
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#9It seems obvious there would be plenty of "legitimate" dislikes coming, as probably a lot of people who followed this YouTube channel in the past 4 years were Trump supporters, and now the channel features Biden. Trump supporters still subscribed would dislike this content. I wonder if the same happened at the last transition.
> Trump supporters still subscribed would dislike this content. I wonder if the same happened at the last transition.
I'd be surprised if it hadn't. The bigger question is whether YouTube manipulated the dislikes back then, too.
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#10The article implies something nefarious going on here, but there are plenty of entirely rational innocent explanations. i.e. the videos are attracting a large quantity of spam dislikes, and YouTube is bulk-removing them.
> a large quantity of spam dislikes
what exactly is a 'spam dislike' . I don't see how thats a valid explanation.