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Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)
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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most platforms lead people to more of what they already believe. If you watch one video from the wrong YouTuber, your entire feed will be nothing but neoconservatives.

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I really hated the new Star Wars trilogy, and so watched a few reviews of them. This caused YouTube to recommend me more and more nuttier right-wing videos, because many negative reviews of those movies were done by right wingers (like Geeks & Gamers and Nerdrotic) that followed these up by more and more “woke”-critical videos over time.

It took years to retrain the algorithm that I’m not a right-wing nutjob.