> Perhaps most striking is what was absent. The algorithm rarely led back to mainstream news coverage, or to liberal or centrist videos on Chemnitz or any other

> Perhaps most striking is what was absent. The algorithm rarely led back to mainstream news coverage, or to liberal or centrist videos on Chemnitz or any other topic. Once on the fringes, the algorithm tended to stay there, as if that had been the destination all along. I wonder if part of the problem is the "news coverage" on YouTube is mostly amateur. People in the mainstream don't feel the need to produce amateur news coverage, since that's done professionally. However, people on the fringes produce and consume vast quantities of amateur news content, because there's so little fringe content that's professionally made. That leads to a large, focused single that Youtube's algorithms have trouble filtering out because they're too coarse and they confuse activity for quality.