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YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by takeda »

dexwiz wrote: post #2

Not surprised. Youtube has been known to sell likes/dislikes for years. "Trending" videos for Pop Music will be minutes old yet have thousands of likes and views. The views and like/disklike ratio are about as useful as comments or Twitter followers.

I don't know it's actually youtube that does it. It's actually known that you can just buy an influence by purchasing access to bot accounts[1]. This happens on YT, Twitter, FB and other places, and it isn't just likes/dislikes but also comments.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PGm8LslEb4 ha he has more videos about that

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Post by leephillips »

balozi wrote: post #3

First mistake is assuming that any YT numbers are real. Second mistake is assuming that YT numbers are accurate. Third mistake is assuming that YT numbers represent what you think they represent.

YT numbers are definitely neither real nor accurate: https://lee-phillips.org/youtube/

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Post by babelfish »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #7

Can you imagine how much of "scandal" this would have been if this happened during the last administration?

This is a scandal regardless of administration. That's why it's on the front page on Hacker News and being written about by major media publications.

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Post by drannex »

The tone in this is... Less than stellar.

This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the site. 3.9M removed over the course of 500+ videos for a global account for one of the largest countries isn't all that surprising. They also remove likes and comments for spam reasons as well, which this "article" (if you can call it that) just so happened to ignore, I can't imagine why.

YouTube prunes accounts quite often, even streamers and boy bands will have their numbers rapidly changed to deal with spam or bots. This has been normal operating procedure for over a decade.

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