My point is this: recommending related videos is not indoctrination, even if the content is political. If I'm watching Shapiro and YT recommends Fox, this is not indoctrination (same as, if I'm watching Young Turks and YT recommends Majority Report, it's not indoctrinating me).
Now, if I'm watching Anime and YT recommends Shapiro, I can agree that's closer to indoctrination. However, if it only happens like 2 times for every 10M watches of anime, and then 1 time for every 10M it's recommending Young Turks, then it's not really a significant force in this area; and it is only pushing slightly to the right - and I believe this is the sort of thing that the study found. So coming back to your first quote:
> So the indoctrination isn’t obvious? So it’s subtle? That makes it more pernicious, in my eyes.
No, that is not what the study found. It found that political recommendations for right-leaning content are slightly more common than those for left-leaning content.
Now, if I'm watching Anime and YT recommends Shapiro, I can agree that's closer to indoctrination. However, if it only happens like 2 times for every 10M watches of anime, and then 1 time for every 10M it's recommending Young Turks, then it's not really a significant force in this area; and it is only pushing slightly to the right - and I believe this is the sort of thing that the study found. So coming back to your first quote:
> So the indoctrination isn’t obvious? So it’s subtle? That makes it more pernicious, in my eyes.
No, that is not what the study found. It found that political recommendations for right-leaning content are slightly more common than those for left-leaning content.