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YouTube Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users

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Re: YouTube Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users

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Post by pixxel »

seattle_spring wrote: post #17
29athrowaway wrote: post #8

The journey to the dark side starts with some interesting Joe Rogan video, that takes you to Jordan Peterson, then Matt Walsh and ends with Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern and Alex Jones. That is the bottom of the YouTube iceberg. Below that point videos get mass reported and taken down.

I'd love to know what the "left wing" equivalents to the above are. Looooots of comments in here claiming the "same thing" happens with left-wing content, but I'm not aware of extremely popular left wing outlets that lie about literally everything they report on the way Alex Jones, PragerU, and the like do.

> I'm not aware

This public admission is a great start; keep going.

Re: YouTube Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

nailer wrote: post #20
twisteriffic wrote: post #5

This is not at all surprising. Make a brand new account and watch a few welding or machining videos. You'll be getting PragerU, Daily Wire and Tucker clips in no time. It goes downhill quickly from there. The targeting is pretty explicit.

Daily Wire isn't particularly 'extreme' or 'conspiracy theorist'. I am less familiar with Tucker Carlson but while I find his takes on Russia distasteful, I haven't seen any extremism.

Extremism is relative to where you are on the political spectrum. That's why far right people call even the most modest social program 'communism' and why the far left would call even minor criticism of a social program as 'fascist'.

You haven't seen extremism in from those media sources because relative to your perspective, they aren't.

Re: YouTube Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users

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Post by nailer »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #42
nailer wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Daily Wire isn't particularly 'extreme' or 'conspiracy theorist'. I am less familiar with Tucker Carlson but while I find his takes on Russia distasteful, I haven't seen any extremism.

Extremism is relative to where you are on the political spectrum. That's why far right people call even the most modest social program 'communism' and why the far left would call even minor criticism of a social program as 'fascist'. You haven't seen extremism in from those media sources because relative to your perspective, they aren't.

I think that’s a common behaviour, but also an incorrect one did I do not indulge in, nor have I given you any reason to think that I indulge in.

Extremism is the advocacy of violence as a solution to political problems. Objectively I have not seen The Daily Wire call for genocide because it has not happened.

Re: YouTube Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

nailer wrote: post #43
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extremism is relative to where you are on the political spectrum. That's why far right people call even the most modest social program 'communism' and why the far left would call even minor criticism of a social program as 'fascist'. You haven't seen extremism in from those media sources because relative to your perspective, they aren't.

I think that’s a common behaviour, but also an incorrect one did I do not indulge in, nor have I given you any reason to think that I indulge in. Extremism is the advocacy of violence as a solution to political problems. Objectively I have not seen The Daily Wire call for genocide because it has not happened.

What I was saying I feel applies to everyone, you and me included.

'extremism', 'advocacy', and even 'violence' all have subjective definitions dependent on nuance, context, and subtext. Exactly what you (and me too) perceive these to mean will depend both on us and what is being discussed. That's just the way it is. There is no absolute objective viewpoint when it comes to human politics.

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