{"id":9530,"date":"2018-03-11T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2018-03-11T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:46:15","slug":"youtubes-recommendation-algorithm-pushes-people-to-watch-ever-more-extreme-content-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/11\/youtubes-recommendation-algorithm-pushes-people-to-watch-ever-more-extreme-content-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Youtube&#8217;s recommendation algorithm pushes people to watch ever more extreme content"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Soon I noticed something peculiar. YouTube started to recommend and \u201cautoplay\u201d videos for me that featured white supremacist rants, Holocaust denials and other disturbing content.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat we are witnessing is the computational exploitation of a natural human desire&#8230;. <strong>YouTube leads viewers down a rabbit hole of extremism, while Google racks up the ad sales.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"YouTube, the Great Radicalizer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F03%2F10%2Fopinion%2Fsunday%2Fyoutube-politics-radical.html#?secret=5imzMqy5sA\" data-secret=\"5imzMqy5sA\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRegardless of topic, Youtube&#8217;s recommendation algorithm\u00a0 recommends videos containing more extreme versions of whatever it is you just watched.<br \/>\nThis makes sense from a selling eyeballs to advertisers perspective. The more emotionally riled up you become, the more likely you are to be receptive to advertiser messages (a.k.a. ad propaganda).<br \/>\nGoogle&#8217;s core business is advertising (a.k.a. propaganda) and they know exactly what they are doing, which is optimizing every possible way to make money. A side effect is the increasing polarization of society, and the dumbing down of society fed a diet of misinformation through the use of computational advertising.<br \/>\nRead the whole article, above.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Recommendation algorithms are a fantastically powerful tool for propagandists.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Soon I noticed something peculiar. YouTube started to recommend and \u201cautoplay\u201d videos for me that featured white supremacist rants, Holocaust denials and other disturbing content. &#8230; What we are witnessing is the computational exploitation of a natural human desire&#8230;. YouTube leads viewers down a rabbit hole of extremism, while Google racks up the ad sales.&#8221; &nbsp; Regardless of topic, Youtube&#8217;s recommendation algorithm\u00a0 recommends videos containing more extreme versions of whatever it is you just watched. This makes sense from a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/11\/youtubes-recommendation-algorithm-pushes-people-to-watch-ever-more-extreme-content-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-business","category-computational-propaganda","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}