I believe the rich aren’t particular on political philosophy, they just think of it pragmatically.
They want content that makes population easier to control, and surprise surprise that almost always is far right direction.
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astraeus@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Youtube is unironically, completely pandering to the far right. You can open a completely fresh account, look at absolutely anything, and your recs will have right wing slop. People debate whether this was always intentional or just becuase it generates engagement, but imo it’s an intentional psyop because google is the devil
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
otacon239@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Don’tBe Evil (as possible)pulsewidth@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I figure its intentional because Google’s executives know right-wing chuds and their politicians will always push corporate-friendly and ultrarich-friendly legislation like tax cuts, deregulation, and defanged government institutions.
But I’m in agreement that it’s likely done with glee by YouTube’s team, who seem as happy to promote right-wing chuds as they do to stamp out left-wing voices from the feed.
Example: I sometimes search for videos I’ve seen from subscriptions, and using the exact title of the video and the creator I still have to wade through three or four pages of search results with far different titles - scrolling past heaps of ideologically-opposite results as I go - to finally find the real video. That’s no mistake, thats an intentional finger on the scale to hide leftist voices.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
My assumption is the bias is unintentional, at least partially, and just the priorities of recommendations is weighed heavily to encourage engagement above all else, and stoking fear and anger drives engagement. Also the distribution of content could be a factor. On the right, it seems like everyone is trying to get in on the grift of advertising elk meat or trump coin to exploit their viewers, meanwhile high quality journalism and news is under funded. For every Climate Town or A More Perfect Union, there’s tens or hundreds of right wing fearmongering videos.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The rage-stoking flamebait is definitely a real thing on all social media to drive engagement. But the only explanation for searching for an exact video name with the name of the creator, and the desired video not being in the top few hits but rather buried below dozens and dozens of other results is suppression of that creator. And it happens repeatedly for left-wing creators.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There’s actually a simpler explanation. Companies will purposefully make their products worse to keep you using them longer. By prioritizing the algorithm over your search results you’re staying in the app longer, seeing more algo suggestions, and more likely to give up on your search and click something else.
Good examples of this are Google purposefully crippling their own search, or Netflix making it impossible to see what movies they actually have. So they kneecap the product. What are you going to do? Stop using it? If the answer is no, then there’s room to make it just a little worse…
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Opening a completely fresh session on a VPN, trying to look up info on gender transition, you have to dig through results that are littered with detransition scare videos, TERF propaganda, and other right wing bullshit to find a handful of results that are even remotely relevant to what I searched.
The only thing YouTube is useful for is home repair videos.
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