• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    Have you tried clicking the 3 dots on these outrage videos and selecting “don’t recommend channel” or a mix of that and “not interested?” I started to see a bunch of right wing political trash in my feed a while back since a lot of my watched videos could be considered adjacent (cars/trucks/offroading/home improvement/dash cam vids/etc) to what these people like and I haven’t really had this issue again.

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      It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

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        It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

        I’ve got a conspiracy theory about this:

        1. Everyone likes kittens.
        2. Some of us who like kittens think about how to act decently to each-other, some of the time.

        Leading to:

        1. Right wingers who like kittens will sometimes see something “woke” in their algorithm feed, and they feel attacked.
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        They still think that YouTube and Facebook are representative of the average person. They don’t understand how incredible curated those feeds are. I think that’s where some of the “silent majority” mythos comes from. Everything they see is people agreeing with them, therefore it’s impossible that Joe Biden got more votes in 2020.