This article and also this one at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250306-inside-youtubes-hidden-world-of-forgotten-videos were interesting reads. It would be nice if they offered some pointers on how to better find this stuff.
How language is hiding the real internet from you
Submitted 5 days ago by remington@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250812-how-language-is-hiding-the-real-internet-from-you
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 days ago
One of the interesting things of exploring other languages on especially social media is that you realize just how un-moderated the US platforms are for anything but English. When people talk about Facebook advancing genocides, it’s the platforms not bothering to moderate non-English content but still applying their maximum-engagement algorithms in those spaces, so you get this snowballing of negative content.
Be wary if you go looking for non-English social media (it’s actually not hard at all, you use a VPN and change either your OS or browser locale settings), because you can easily end up seeing some grisly stuff.