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YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest (lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu)

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YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content.

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[-] Steve@communick.news 7 points 11 months ago

Exactly. If you don't want to see them, best thing is to ignore them.

[-] xangadix@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I actually report every single one of them, usually the channel too, for hate speech. that seems to keep them out of my feed

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