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

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it's just right leaning users. I'm pretty far to the left and I keep ketting anti-trans, anti-covid right wing talking points quite frequently. I keep pressing thumbs down but they keep coming.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

I have definitely been hitting that “don’t recommend this channel to me” button noticeably more frequently lately…