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My take: YouTube provides the tools, then people use them in a biased way. If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the lib

My take: YouTube provides the tools, then people use them in a biased way. If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the liberal point of view will look like it's being pushed. Something happened yesterday to me that really drove it home. An AI scam started showing up for me. Before I realized a scam, I made a comment pointing out that what they were saying was incorrect. They deleted my comment, reported my email address to YouTube as a scammer so shutting me down real quick. It was then I noticed they had 50k subscribers despite only being a couple of days old and they had a product to sell in the description. Clearly, the people behind this account were tech savvy. tl;dr: The viewpoints of tech savvy groups in your country are going to win out. Info promotion and suppression is not a conspiracy of tech companies.

kitsunesoba 3y ago
> If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the liberal point of view will look like it's being pushed. Awareness of the rules makes a difference too. If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS (as might happen with particularly polarized members), they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway. It's creators that sit firmly within the rules or carefully run right up alongside their boundaries that do well in the long term.
- edmundsauto 3y ago
  > If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS... they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway. They are also able to get feedback and learn how to adapt, in the cat-and-mouse game of spam/SEO/wrongthink. IMO, these groups are the ones that know how to exploit the algorithms best, because they have a ruthless survivalship happening.
  - jonathankoren 3y ago
    It’s not just that. There’s a very real outrage machine on the right that works the refs so they get a breaks for what are very obvious TOS violations.

kitsunesoba 3y ago

> If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the liberal point of view will look like it's being pushed. Awareness of the rules makes a difference too. If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS (as might happen with particularly polarized members), they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway. It's creators that sit firmly within the rules or carefully run right up alongside their boundaries that do well in the long term.

edmundsauto 3y ago
> If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS... they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway. They are also able to get feedback and learn how to adapt, in the cat-and-mouse game of spam/SEO/wrongthink. IMO, these groups are the ones that know how to exploit the algorithms best, because they have a ruthless survivalship happening.
- jonathankoren 3y ago
  It’s not just that. There’s a very real outrage machine on the right that works the refs so they get a breaks for what are very obvious TOS violations.