YouTube’s recommendation engine is highly consequential. Chromebooks are used heavily education—about 50% of the market—and come bundled with YouTube. Millions of K-12 students encounter it routinely.https://twitter.com/chrisalensula/status/959478208700796928 …
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Agree. The future (already here) is visual—videos and memes—not as much text. YouTube and Instagram both underresearched.https://twitter.com/d1gi/status/959500863244029952 …
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If people are being taken to right-wing content, then those providing left-wing content are pressured to appeal to them. Which is what happened. Ostensibly left wing sites/rags were at least as critical of Clinton as Trump. Crooked Timber, Jacobin, Boston Review, the Nation.
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It's because people on the left are much less likely to make fantastic pizzagate clickbait since they came to be left due to their commitment to empirical analysis and the facts led them to their political position.
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I certainly noticed that despite frequently flagging conspiracy and pro-Trump videos as "not interested" my recommended videos list was always at least ~15-20% those videos. Especially after watching several progressive political and mainstream news videos.
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I think clickbait is a big factor here. Hell, I keep seeing video on my recommended that are like: "TEACHER DESTROYS SOCIALIST SJW STUDENTS" or "LEFT GETS OWNED WITH PEPPER SPRAY"
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Anecdotal, but YouTube (*specifically* YouTube) seems to be a place where RWers engage far more noticeably. On relatively non-partisan content, the comments/like ratios seem to skew hard to the right. Maybe they just produce more data that drives the algorithms.
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In other words, they're too stupid to read and get their news by watching TV (or, in this case, videos on the web).
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IDK about you, but when I'm trying to figure out what marginal affects could have swayed the margins of an entire electorate, I don't spend much time on my own idiosyncrasies as one data point among 120 million.
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