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How does the dislike button indicate propaganda? It seems most people are engaging with YouTube in the same bubbles as any other social media platform. The "p
by bun_at_work 5y ago
How does the dislike button indicate propaganda?
It seems most people are engaging with YouTube in the same bubbles as any other social media platform.
The "propaganda" videos I see (when searching for them) on YouTube don't have large dislike ratios, they are very much liked by the people who consume that content. An example is PragerU videos.
- coolso 5y ago> How does the dislike button indicate propaganda? Take the Gillette ad as a great example. No dislike button? Now the “lack of downvotes” can be used to indicate the normalization of such propaganda and imply people support the message.
- defaultname 5y ago[flagged]
- trts 5y agohere's the comment you're mischaracterizing where I describe my efforts to convince unvaccinated people to get vaccinated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28698230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28698230
- defaultname 5y ago[flagged]
- trts 5y agoThese are not my words or sentiments. I'll leave it at that.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and your comments in this thread have moved the thread noticeably in that direction. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- defaultname 5y agoFair enough, though I'm a little confused at the gigantic threads that have remained unflagged that basically make the same statement (albeit from the "other side" - that YouTube is defending Democrats, the White House, etc). It is impossible to discuss this without it becoming ideological, and the asymmetry is exactly why it is a massive problem.
- dang 5y agoI'm not sure which threads you're talking about, but it's probably a combination of (a) they're not breaking the site guidelines as much and/or (b) they haven't gotten moderator attention (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) - we don't come close to seeing everything and we don't necessarily read the threads in sequence.
- ok123456 5y agoMaybe some content is just bad?