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NBC News reports:
YouTube has a pattern of recommending right-leaning and Christian videos, even to users who haven’t previously interacted with that kind of content, according to a recent study of the platform’s suggestions to users. Researchers created accounts and built mock user personas by searching for content, subscribing to channels and watching videos using those accounts. After having built personas for five days, researchers recorded the video recommendations displayed on each account’s homepage for a month.
Videos with religious themes — primarily Christianity — were also recommended to all the accounts, even though none of them had watched religious content during the persona-building stage. The accounts interested in mommy vloggers, for example, were shown videos with Bible verses. The researchers also found that YouTube recommended videos including sexually explicit content to the child account and videos featuring influencer Andrew Tate, who has been charged with human trafficking and rape.
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This isn’t a minority of thought on the right. So many have gone down so many youtube conspiracy holes & the algorithm only takes them deeper down that hole.
They believe in Ancient Aliens visited earth but we can’t leave earth because it’s flat with a dome. It’s freaking nuts! https://t.co/0Y1MoYMx6v
— Russell Foster A New Texas (@RussellFosterTX) June 12, 2024