Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Since the right wing stuff still gets pushed to the front page

  I find this hard to believe since it goes against my decades long personal experience using YouTube. The moment I click on a “Ben Shapiro destroys” video, sure - I get plenty more in my feed. But they also go away when I stop engaging. In my experience, YouTube does a great job of recommending me the kind of content I actually like to watch.

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  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The moment I click on a “Ben Shapiro destroys” video, sure - I get plenty more in my feed. But they also go away when I stop engaging.

    Uh huh. Which means they’re being pushed to people they think will engage, which means they’re being monetized or are at least considered monetizable if the creator isn’t eligible. Like they said.

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    • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well yeah, isn’t that the whole point of the recommendation algorithm? To suggest content people might find engaging. If a “Ben Shapiro destroys” video doesn’t break any rules, then what’s the issue with it being monetized? What I’m doubting here is the claim that this kind of content is somehow disproportionately pushed to people who have no interest in it.

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      • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If a “Ben Shapiro destroys” video doesn’t break any rules, then what’s the issue with it being monetized?

        The issue, my friend, is that such videos often do break the rules on hateful content and on misinformation (though those rules may have also been removed after 2020), but are still able to be monetized regardless.

        What I’m doubting here is the claim that this kind of content is somehow disproportionately pushed to people who have no interest in it.

        Straw man. You may have had that argument with someone else, but no one on this comment chain ever made that claim but you.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your personal experience validated their claim, what are you talking about

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    • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, it doesn’t. If I watch a 15-second funny video from nine years ago, my feed gets flooded with other short clips like that - that’s just how the algorithm works. My personal experience doesn’t support the claim that right-wing media is being disproportionately pushed to people who aren’t interested in it. If I click on that kind of video, it means I’m interested in it - so of course I get recommended more.

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      • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fair, I spoke too strongly. My bad!

        I regularly get ads for airbrushed right wing talking heads arguing with college kids. That’s paid so not only the algorithm, but it is annoying!

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      • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My personal experience doesn’t support the claim that right-wing media is being disproportionately pushed to people who aren’t interested in it.

        They didn’t ever make that claim, that’s just your straw man.

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