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.

  • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    My algorithm is clean of political stuff (because I never watch that stuff) and I still get recommendations for Crowder, Shapiro et al. For no reason what so ever. I wonder what I would get recommended if I did watch those guys. :|