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.
It’s such a slippery slope. I avoid anything mildly right leaning to keep my algorithm clean. I sometimes watch stuff incognito to preserve my accounts algorithm. What a world…
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. :|