Is anyone here going through the same situation? I usually consume content about films, series, anime, etc. But out of nowhere my feed started recommending racist, Nazi and right-wing content. I’m not saying that right-wingers are Nazis or racists, I’m saying that right-wing content is appearing to me alongside racist and Nazi content. Anyone here having the same problem?
Same reason I’m seeing suggestions for tucker Carlson on YouTube.
Money.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Twitter is pushing it due to it being proven that outrage boosts engagement. Facebook has been doing that for years.
Elon Musk is a literal fascist.
I’m not saying that right-wingers are Nazis or racists,
I am.
When people say they aren’t Nazi’s, but all they do is tweet about Nazi’s, and support Nazi ideas, and defend Nazi’s…
Well, then yes I think they may, in fact, be Nazi’s.
Same. And they are in this persons feed cause they are paying money to amplify hate. We allow corporations to make money off people spreading toxic ideology through the “veil” of advertising. We really need to fix up citizens united or whatever it was. Can’t recall which recent fuckery it was.
It’s really fucking hard for them to deny it at this point. Hate and racism has become their entire platform and the only reason they even have a chance of winning is because of decades of brainwashing idiots with propaganda.
Bears though amiright?
Me: Republicans are hateful
Republican: not me I’m one of the good ones, a paleo conservative!
Me: then vote Libertarian
Republican: oh I’ll sit at a table with the bad ones
That’s part of it, but without exploiting the massive failures of the US electoral system they’d never have enough people in the government to be able to take it over like they have.
Because Twitter is political lol
The algo assumes you must not be activated yet, and the most profitable way to do that is to make you a raging right winger.
All right wingers aren’t nazis or racists, but all nazis and racists are right wingers so that might explain it.
Liberals are racist.
Racists are racist
get off lemmy and don’t come back
Okay … If you got the balls, explain or shut the fuck up
Joe Biden: ‘Poor Kids Are Just As Bright’ As White Kids At Event For Asian & Hispanic Voters
DEI is racist. Affirmative Action is racist.
Apparently, lmao, racism toward White people isn’t racism. - Literally… you can YouTube search this… you will find a sea of videos showing liberals from all walks of life in America making this stupid, ignant claim.
Double standards are bad, mmmmkay
Run along now.
It’s… Twitter (X). Not blaming you, but that’s literally what Musk wants people to see. Stop using it…
I’m seeing this on YouTube, as well. I’m interested in gaming and entertainment, but in the last couple of months, I’ve been getting absolute right-wing dipsh*ttery in my “Recommended” list.
It feels to me like YouTube is trying to rage-bait users into engaging in this trash, even when those users have shown no interest in it.
A related problem I see on YouTube is talking heads pruning their comments to create mini echo chambers. This is a real problem.
I could be wrong, but it might be unintentional. The algorithm seeing a process by which rage and reaction generates more views (and hence more ad revenue) and tries to see if it can get it to spread. Same thing that lead to all those stupid “open mouth yelling” thumbnails.
It’s still irresponsible, and I’m all for assuming evil out of Google, I just don’t think they’d gain much from getting you specifically indoctrinated by Ben Shapiro.
Click on the 3 dots menu and choose “do not recommend this channel”.
Despite people’s cynicism, it actually does work.
Every corporate media outlet is trying to get Joe Biden to drop out of the race, but none of those outlets is talking about how horrible Donald Trump is. Coincidence? I think not.
I think they’re just trying to get the conservative off their ass, just like every fucking company that is cancelling DEI programs and scaling back community LGBTQ activities. When boycotts and bad PR actually impact the bottom line is when you see this. It happens both ways. Companies don’t care about any of this. They only care about the bottom line. They’ll pander to whoever has the most financial impact on the business.
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Twitter is now X. You know, that cribbled Swastika.
Propaganda. Block, report, unsubscribe, or leave the platform.
Cause you’re on Twitter you weirdo. Frankly anyone still using it is sus at this point.
The issue is that many of the people I follow are still on twitter, many even critical of Musk (ie. Stephen King)
They’re all liars. If they were really critical they’d be doing it elsewhere. You might as well call them volkswagen, IBM, and Hugo Boss. Cuz that’s all they are.
Real answer, Elon made it more friendly to the far right (the racists and Nazis) and unbanned a bunch of them who had previously been banned for being too racist and Nazi. Then he introduced a subscription service where you pay to have Twitter spread your content.
So that started a doom loop: The far right bought the additional views, people who didn’t appreciate the extra racism and Nazi views on their timeline left Twitter, but the view boost was paid for so it kept pushing those views to the fewer people who remained, then THAT volume of hate pushed more people away, etc.
It probably got to the point that they couldn’t keep paid views high enough with just people who care about politics and they had to just push at all costs, eventually to you.
Dude, Elon Musk bought it with the express purpose of amplifying far right voices. He just finally figured out how to get the algorithm to do it instead of pinning his favorite retweets and self tweets to the top of everyone’s feed.
because that is what its owner wants to promote
