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All of a sudden, Youtube's been pushing a lot more right-wing shit into my recommended videos. (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the past few days, it's recommended:

Some guy saying vegan diets don't work (news to me, considering I've been on one for years)
A different guy complaining about PETA's new game
A woman saying women in modern games are too ugly
The same woman saying women don't really want to be in charge of anything
Some bullshit from ShoeOnHead
Paul Joseph Watson

Not sure where this all came from. I'd actually enjoyed a very long, pleasant streak where it wasn't recommending me any of this trash. Now they're coming out of the woodwork. Every time I see one of these videos I click the "don't recommend this" button, but there are always more.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

YT is being astroturfed to hell. A lot of leftists have had their income yanked. Billionaires and Wall Street fascists are funding reich wing media and paying YT cubic ass tons of money to boost their shit. No doubt there are comment farms with scripts / AI. That's what we noticed with Reddit when I was a mod. It is overwhelming. You have a shit ton of fascist loving bot farms in India, Israel, Ukraine, US.

I hope someone can do an analysis on it. They aren't very inventive. They just think repeating the same shit very angerly will Orwell things for them.

Then companies bitch no one loves them and how young generation ruins their grift because they see through it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You're overly optimistic at how well people can dodge & see through propaganda. It works.