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How YouTube's algorithm distorts truth
- pulisse 9y agoOne nugget from TFA: More than 80% of the YouTube-recommended videos about the pope detected by his program described the Catholic leader as “evil”, “satanic”, or “the anti-Christ”. There were literally millions of videos uploaded to YouTube to satiate the algorithm’s appetite for content claiming the earth is flat. “On YouTube, fiction is outperforming reality,” Chaslot says.
- ddebernardy 9y agoThat caught my eye too. In some sense it's refreshing, considering how the Catholic Church may end up going down in history as the world's biggest indirect mass murderer (for John Paul II and contemporary peers promoting the idea in HIV/AIDS afflicted countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia that condom use is not acceptable - or, in some cases like El Salvador, useful.) But in the context of the article it's borderline comical, given how likely the videos in question have conspiracy nut jobs written all over their description.