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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.
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.
Can you imagine how much of "scandal" this would have been if this happened during the last administration?
Maybe on twitter. Otherwise I don't think anyone would care.
[1]: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/trump-complains-twitter-purged-...
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 ig…
Agreed. I got down to the "So odd for the most popular resident ever!" and realized I got duped into reading some ideologue's rant against the other team and now I have to question the data provided and wonder what context got casually discarded.
Things like the removal of 1 star reviews [0] when an app rating goes down. They call this "review-bombing" protection.
And perhaps the easier option for this kind of official videos is disabling comments and like/dislike buttons for them.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-...
Can you imagine how much of "scandal" this would have been if this happened during the last administration?
What makes you think that it wasn't also happening during the last administration?
It is true that Biden won the most votes cast for a U.S. presidential candidate, amassing about 81 million votes. Such a popular president should have some truly epic YouTube numbers. Let's keep track. I'm sure we won't see anything weird happening, such as dislikes being thrown out in the wee hours of the morning.
When you're dealing with "voting" on the internet (like Reddit, YouTube, or HN do), there's going to be vote manipulation. Some of it you might be able to catch early on. Some of it you'll end up fixing with batch jobs that identify "huh, there seems to be a few hundred users using this IP address and all watching this video and hating it at exactly the same time."
This blog linked here has such posts as "Something Rotten in Georgia" where she questions the accuracy of Georgia election results (https://phzoe.com/2021/01/06/something-rotten-in-georgia/) and "81 Million Ballots" where she says that "there is ample reasons to suspect that foul play bumped [the number of votes for Biden] by several million" (https://phzoe.com/2021/03/12/81-million-ballots/).
Are we really upvoting right-wing propaganda now?
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.
I've never heard of OP's article and don't see much reporting on this by major "journalists."