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Comment by macinjosh

Wow! You discovered YouTube will recommend videos from the same channels being watched. Beyond the brain-dead obviousness of this, who got to decide what is extremist or as the study also put it "alternative"? Since when is alternative media a bad thing?

This watering down of the concept of extremism is the dangerous part. YouTube doesn't host ISIS or KKK content. Videos from the opposite of your position on the political spectrum is not extremism.

The data comes from a survey and automated observation of just ~1,100 people. Super controlled, high quality, reliable source. /s

This is simple the Church of Science pulling its weight for the government that funds them.

parent macinjosh 3 years ago

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