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This website also contains climate change denial and scare quotes around the word scientist. We should be more skeptical of sites like this.
The 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.
It 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.
Presumably you could unsubscribe. Which is not the case with instagram. If you followed the White House account, or you decide to follow the archived account for Trump, you are periodically made to follow the current White House account for Biden. Even if you block the user, it will unblock and re-follow you.
This website also contains climate change denial and scare quotes around the word scientist. We should be more skeptical of sites like this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a large quantity of spam dislikes what exactly is a 'spam dislike' . I don't see how thats a valid explanation.
Probably bots, people who do nothing but dislike videos, Indian sweatshops that are human bot farms, dislikes driven by social media posts calling for users to add dislikes, etc.
> dislikes driven by social media posts calling for users to add dislikes
this is not spam. how does youtube knows which dislikes are driven by 'social media post' ?
> Indian sweatshops that are human bot farms
someone is paying sweatshops to dislike whitehouse youtube? How do you know this ?
I find it hard to believe YT is engaging in “manipulation” of a stat that frankly doesn’t really matter if you’re an account like the White House.
This website also contains climate change denial and scare quotes around the word scientist. We should be more skeptical of sites like this.
The 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.
Someone wanting more entries might create lots of fake accounts.
I'm sure there are many other ways to do this but that is one example on how spam dislikes can be generated.