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Maybe I'm imagining it, but I've noticed that it's difficult to find user-generated current-events content on Youtube. The search results are dominated, artifi
by marcoperaza 6y ago
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I've noticed that it's difficult to find user-generated current-events content on Youtube. The search results are dominated, artificially it feels, by clips from the major broadcasters and news agencies. User-created content is pushed down. I guess that's what preferring "authoritative" sources looks like, and I wonder if people are just "choosing" ("demanding") what the search results have been rigged to give them.
- rodiger 6y agoOr if those are initially organically selected and then pushed further by the algorithm. Likely a combination of real preference + manufactured
- marcoperaza 6y agoI should have added that it's definitely very different from how it was four years ago.