YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest

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YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest
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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.

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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...

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