Why is youtube suggesting aggressive actions against protestors?

Danterious@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 507 points –

I made sure to remove cookies and not sign in so I think these are the base suggestions made by youtube.

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Because the algorithm caters to nazis.

Not that the algorithms caters to nazis, but because they would have flagged Republicans as hate speech. As a resultn algorithms designed to combat hate speech, racism, white supremacy, and neo-nazism were atered down.

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-algorithm-crackdown-white-supremacy-gop-politicians-report-2019-4

LOL if the algorithm can't tell republicans from nazis and they back down when republicans complain... the result is that it caters to nazis hiding among republicans because the goddamned GOP shelters its nazis