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Facebook is worse than Google in the sense that it manipulates you through your ties to other people. But it's not like Google didn't try to do the same. They just failed, and now have to settle for YouTube communities, email, and the web.
Agree that YT has a problem (and I hope we'll see it fixed soon). But you can't compare YT to FB. Propaganda on YT is like propaganda on Fox News: it's strangers yelling at you on a screen, and you can just turn off the TV. FB, on the other hand, ... (Cont)
is how you keep in touch with your friends, and it can (does) use what your friends say in order to manipulate you (social reinforcement). Harder to avoid, far more insidious and far more effective
The YouTube thing is subtler than that. A lot of kids spend an enormous there, for example, and Chromebooks (which many schools use) don't give you a way to turn it off. And there are bona fide YouTube communities. I don't think the difference is as clear cut as you state
google pays people directly to pit their propaganda on YouTube, Facebook monetises through attention; LOL that you think the TV has no implied authority
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