Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

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    1 year ago

    Conservative proganda is a highly coordinated and well-funded network. They pay for preference.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not that so much as Howard Stern theory. The people that like that stuff, click on it and move on.

      The people that hate that stuff hate it enough to interact with it… That means more time on the site, more ads, more revenue.

      It’s just the hate algorithms… They’re lucrative.