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How social media algorithms promote conspiracy theories
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You may still not understand some of the minor jokes, but the main point will be understandable for those who don't live in the Netherlands and don't understand Dutch ;-) Some hints: Den Haag (the Hague) is the city where the Dutch parliament is located. Mrs Arib is the Madam Speaker of the Dutch Lower House of parliament. NOS is the national Dutch broadcast company. "Lange Frans" is a Dutch rapper. Mark Rutte is the Dutch prime minister. "Forum voor Democratie" is a populist party with 2 seats in the Dutch Lower House
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Wow. "Lock her up!" Pizzagate. Fake news. 9/11 was fake. How do these people explain what you (don't) see when you visit New York City? (I don't want to know).
Obama?? Orders late-night junk food so he can prey on children??? Public assassination plots against elected officials?? So...this is the culture the United States is exporting to the world...thanks to Donald Trump. Quote:
Anybody know of a way to block this toxic nonsense? |
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I call it the "power button"
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Last year I watched a 4-part documentary about ancient Egypt on YouTube. I had "DID ALIENS BUILD THE PYRAMIDS?" type of recommendations after that for months.
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Yes, I know in practice it is less, because the same recommendations are popping up several times during surfing YouTube, but it is still a lot of opportunities. Quote:
Anyway you can go to that video and click dislike button or go to YouTube history and YouTube search to remove entries.
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I got another one today (see attached image); that "Evidence for Ancient High Technology" sandwiched in the sidebar between all the bona fide science stuff is just a load of nonsense; I got this "recommendation" after watching a bunch of PBS videos. I watched as much of that as could stomach; there is a lot of pointless waffling and fannying about, but it seems to be about how ancient civilisations had powered circular saws and the like to build the stone stuff architecture that they did, and also something about how they're tens of thousands of years older (much is about how "mainstream archaeology" is unwilling to accept the "clear evidence" rather than actually providing information). While the word "electricity" is carefully avoided ("powered" is often used), there is another video with some experiment about the electrical conductivity of different types of rocks which is supposed to mean ... something. The entire thing reminds me of Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods" from 1995; I read it when I was 12 or so, and on its own it's actually pretty convincing, but once you learn a bit more about things you realize it's actually leaving out a lot of stuff and relies on various logical fallacies. Yet for years, I believed there was something to it. Years ago I accidentally stumbled on some "holocaust debunking video", back when YouTube and Google Videos were essentially unmoderated. I was rather interested in hearing what these people actually believe and how they could deny such an incredibly well-documented truth, so I watched a bunch of videos. If you watch *only* those videos then ... it sounds pretty convincing, and it's not like these videos are laced with neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, or the like. At any rate, the entire thing is complicated; do I want to prevent these people from writing their books and uploading their videos to YouTube? No, not really. But I also think it's undesirable and harmful you get recommendations for them after watching a few science videos. I don't really know what to do with this.
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