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YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by tzs »

phzoe wrote: post #47
mdasen wrote: post #29

I'm a little shocked that this is getting so much traction here. The site (81m-dot-org) seems to be a right-wing "the election was stolen from Trump" site. Their "about" page says: 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…

Good thing you audited all the states and know the truth. Some of us aren't privy to such magical knowledge, and so we'd like a look see.

The relevant states were already audited. There is no "magical knowledge" required.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by iammisc »

takeda wrote: post #58
iammisc wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said no one would care other than twitter. However cnn made it's money the past four years sensationalizing everything about the previous administration, so that is evidence that people other than twitter care.. CNN's former viewers.

You are comparing breaking treaties, attacking allies, sympathizing with our long time enemies, rolling back regulation, mishandling pandemic to youtube removal of votes? If this is the biggest thing the right media can sensationalize, I say the current administration is doing pretty damn good.

There is nothing wrong with rolling back regulations.

Current admin jokes about nuking Americans.

But I guess making peace with enemies is worse yeah

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Post by iammisc »

duxup wrote: post #55
iammisc wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said no one would care other than twitter. However cnn made it's money the past four years sensationalizing everything about the previous administration, so that is evidence that people other than twitter care.. CNN's former viewers.

Whatever CNN is, I think it is more than and has existed longer than "made it's money the past four years sensationalizing everything about the previous administration". Let alone how that ties to its ratings. You're out in the weeds with these characterizations and connections.

CNNs ratings have dropped precipitously after Trump left office, after rising quite a bit during his time in office. Several accusations against their hosts, such as Maddow, have been met with responses of 'this was exaggeration' in courts of law (an argument judges have accepted).

With that in mind, and keeping in mind CNN is a pretty mainstream news source, it's pretty obvious that a large segment of CNNs viewers did care about such scandals during the previous administration, which means quite a bit of non-tweeters did.

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Post by takeda »

iammisc wrote: post #62
takeda wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are comparing breaking treaties, attacking allies, sympathizing with our long time enemies, rolling back regulation, mishandling pandemic to youtube removal of votes? If this is the biggest thing the right media can sensationalize, I say the current administration is doing pretty damn good.

There is nothing wrong with rolling back regulations. Current admin jokes about nuking Americans. But I guess making peace with enemies is worse yeah

Not when enemies are continuing hostile actions toward us.

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Post by klipklop »

I see a lot of people refuting this data, yet provide no counter evidence. Let's remove politics from this, is YouTube being deceptive? I am honestly asking.

I have noticed in the past controversial videos have their views/dislikes reset. Anecdotal, but I would like to see if there is truth to vote and view manipulation.

Hell look at sometimes how manipulated the trending pages are. I remember for months low view count Jimmy Kimmel clips were boosted to trending. Logged in or not. Seems like mainstream Hollywood stuff is far more likely to trend.

YouTube is silent about explaining why this happens. It can't all possibly be spam and bots.

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Post by duxup »

iammisc wrote: post #63
duxup wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever CNN is, I think it is more than and has existed longer than "made it's money the past four years sensationalizing everything about the previous administration". Let alone how that ties to its ratings. You're out in the weeds with these characterizations and connections.

CNNs ratings have dropped precipitously after Trump left office, after rising quite a bit during his time in office. Several accusations against their hosts, such as Maddow, have been met with responses of 'this was exaggeration' in courts of law (an argument judges have accepted). With that in mind, and keeping in mind CNN is a pretty mainstream news source, it's pretty obvious that a large segment of CNNs viewers d…

I gotta tell you every post is like a couple opinions and then these connections and assumptions that just don't make sense in any way.
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