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.

  • KinNectar@kbin.run
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    1 year ago

    I am so sick of getting redpilled on YouTube Shorts. On the one hand I know that having the algorithm present content from across the political spectrum is healthy for discourse in some ways, I have had enough Ben Shapiro for my lifetime, thank you. Also it doesn’t seem like the algorithm learns well from the “do not recommend this channel to me” function.