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YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by duxup »

iammisc wrote: post #19
duxup wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe on twitter. Otherwise I don't think anyone would care.

CNNs drop in ratings would beg to differ.

I have no idea what that has to do with an imagined scandal... over youtube down votes... like none.

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Post by lph »

This is presented in a way that infers political partisanship, but without any evidence for or against that argument.

- No statistics for previous administration's like/dislike removal rate. Was it lower? Higher? We don't know.

- No statistics for YouTube like/dislike removal rates on other kinds of political or non-political videos. Maybe this is extraordinary behavior for YouTube, or maybe not. We don't know.

In other words, this is flame bait that people can read into whatever they want to confirm their biases. With a heavy dose of partisan editorializing ("Disgusting!").

At best, it shows a need for more principled study from someone else.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by erk__ »

The big question that is missing to be answered is what it looks like generally on youtube, especially with highprofile youtube channels with a lot of people who dislike them, it is rather rare where more than half of all viewers dislike a video.

A incident like this also happened in the past and there youtube said that they remove malicious or spammy votes, though did not seem to comment on the concrete case. https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/25/did-youtube-r...

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Post by duxup »

nrb wrote: post #16

Dislikes removed, or bots banned (taking the votes with them)?

Youtubers value likes so the volume of like or dislike spam I suspect is pretty high.

I see likes and dislikes change over time even on videos with very few likes and views.

I just assume it is some sort of cleanup system.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by airpoint »

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…

Exactly same thoughts. Not only right-wing propaganda but straight up conspiracy nonsense. How is this getting traction on HN!

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by BitwiseFool »

babelfish wrote: post #14
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.

I should add, "this would be seen as a much bigger deal and harped on extensively".

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa »

rootusrootus wrote: post #26
drannex wrote: post #15

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…

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

This whole "Youtube deletes dislikes on White House videos" has been part of the alt right narrative for some weeks now, right next to "if masks work then why do we need to stay at home".

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa »

lph wrote: post #32

This is presented in a way that infers political partisanship, but without any evidence for or against that argument. - No statistics for previous administration's like/dislike removal rate. Was it lower? Higher? We don't know. - No statistics for YouTube like/dislike removal rates on other kinds of political or non-political videos. Maybe this is extraordinary behavior for YouTube, or maybe not. We don't know. In ot…

It's alt right propaganda. On the frontpage of HN.
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