YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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.

Now all the people have to re-dislike.

Goebbels is clapping from the beyond.

>>Youtube has been known to sell likes/dislikes for years

How do they actually do that? First I hear about it.

I would assume YT stats often go through some sorts of spam detection ... thus this?

I see YT stats change up and down a lot. On videos with lots of likes and dislikes, and videos with almost none. I just assume it's spam / false positive detection / database synchronization... or whatever system at work.

Maintaining any kind of stats like this that matter / on a huge site has to be a 'try to keep it in the ballpark' at best scenario / endless adjustments.

It doesn't take much deep thinking to realize how these numbers are going to change for all sorts of legitimate reasons, in any direction. Maybe a number of times, tomorrow even?

Heck maybe if there was spam had nothing to do with the videos / source of the videos even? If I'm going test some up / down vote bottling ... probably going to pick a big target to see how far I can push the numbers.