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GuestFAUniverse · 0 points · 0 comments · wczoraj

It's the same here. AfD content gets pushed on YT. No matter how often I ignore channels. Big tech is so rigged (intensional or not), the question if it is socially net negative has become rhetorical.

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chvidwczoraj

They are beholden to the current US admin - as always - only good thing is that the current admin is so blatant that maybe one day even the Germans will realize that you need to have your own social media just you have your own national tv, newspapers etc.

freecodeiowczoraj

I wonder if it has something to do with profiling. Because as far as my eyes can see my youtube is strictly educational, scientific and engineering.

bluegattywczoraj

This is anecdotal, it's not evidence. The whole point of this discussion is figuring out the difference. AfD is controversial - it's click bait - the algorithm is feeding 'action' - that's the problem.

mrtksnwczoraj

At this point sociala media has become a television, on twitter I just unfollowed everyone who have't followed back and I keep seeing the same antisemitic, antimuslim, anti-EU, anti-woman, anti-immigrant shit. My SO happens to see very similar posts to the point that I can't show her a funny post because she would have already seen it. There are some different posts of course but the money shot is mostly the same. They probably show posts based on location and background, so essentially just like Fox, CNN, MSNBC but everyone sees theirs from the same screen with the same agenda pushed from all of them.

YeahThisIsMewczoraj

I've literally only been recommended their crap once and "don't recommend channel" has been working fine. You might simply have been engaging with related content unknowingly, even if it's only one critical of them.