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.

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.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    What YouTube sees:

    “These videos keep eliciting reactions from users, which means that they prefer to engage with this content. This bodes well for our advertisers.”

    • SteveEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

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

      • xangadix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        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