L’algoritmo di YouTube ha promosso contenuti di destra nelle elezioni finlandesi del 2024
YouTube’s algorithm promoted right-wing content in the 2024 Finnish elections
di jarvis400
L’algoritmo di YouTube ha promosso contenuti di destra nelle elezioni finlandesi del 2024
YouTube’s algorithm promoted right-wing content in the 2024 Finnish elections
di jarvis400
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I don’t think anything special with YouTube. Such subjects get shit ton of attention. Same with Facebook and Twitter. More view, more comment, more exposure.
YouTube’s algorithm almost invariably promotes right wing content.
>Faktabaari and CheckFirst simulated daily YouTube searches for 77 Finnish words connected to key election topics, gathering data from 10 locations in Finland between 24 January and 11 February 2024.
Ten locations is way too low for any sort of real study about the matter. Might of course be true that YouTube favors right wing content but this study cannot make a meaningful claim about it due to the ridiculously low amount of participants.
Randomized trial of at least 1000 homes could be a starting point
Edit: I think it’s an interesting study and the subject needs to be looked into but due to the lacking sample size you simply can’t claim this proves anything especially the way this news article OP linked phrased it.
What’s the news here? Or is somebody somewhere outraged that not only left-wing things get promoted and recommended?
Basically all the election ads I got were for the “Finns” party, so seems fairly correct.
No. It promoted what people were watching and didn’t skip.
The algorithm doesn’t have political bias. It has “what people want to watch”-bias. Or, hmm.. “what keeps people watching the most”-bias.
The algorithm’s purpose is to keep you on the platform for as long as possible. Google probably doesn’t care who is in the government in Finland, right wing content just keeps people watching.
Wait, I thought le rUsSiAn InFlUeNcE was our only concern.
Oh really? *Surprised Pikachu face*
It promotes right wing content all over the place. When YouTube noticed that I also speak German, it started promoting massively the AFD to me. I can click how often, I don’t want to be exposed to their crap, I get the same stuff just from a different channel.
I cant find left wing youtube videos in finland even if i search it. They simply do not exist
And we all saw where that got us in last year’s parliamentary elections: so much for “never cutting from the poor”.
The algorithm promotes content that gets views. I don’t even know what left wing content is, but in the era of immigration issues and war in Europe, there is no lack of topics for right wing content. Then you have the right wing people and the left wing people converging on the comment section of those videos, increasing engagement.
You engage some right-wing/ruzz loving post/free palestine idjit/israeli settler moron even as a detractor, and you’ll be bombarded with such nonsense since algorithm concludes you’d want more.
Not kidding. Test it in twitter. Respond to any nonsense from any ruzz embassy twitter page a few times and see your feed
algorithm
Youtube promotes right-wing content, period.
Interested in gaming, history, or working out? Well – that obviously means that you have an unquenchable thirst for right-wing culture warriors like J. Peterson and B. Shapiro, as well as a nice sprinkle of videos in the “feminists getting owned with facts and logic” – category.
Maybe because Jutta didn’t make that much content, and the YouTube demographics wasn’t interested of it? Algorithm promotes, what people are watching, not everything is a conspiracy.
Yeah, I didn’t see any political stuff in my “algorithm”. No ads either, but that’s another matter.
I don’t really see the problem with it
Halla-aho IS NOT the current leader of the Finns and has not been the for last two and a half years. It is embarrassing to link news which are topically related to manipulation of opinions, if basic facts are not checked properly. This isn’t a matter of differing opinions or phrasing, it is blatantly wrong and also failure of OP to address the issue is also a sign of agenda-posting.
There is one specific youtube channel that is just full of right-wing content, but I think that channel got loads of visibility simply due to the amount of work and content that the channel has.
My guess is that the right-wing is more active in making youtube content since populism is so much easier to pull off with short clips.
What a surprise 😮
Well yeah. Tiktok too. I installed Tiktok on a brand new device in the spring, and the very first THREE videos it recommended me were from Persut politicians.
What’s wrong with right wing content?
Seems about right. Didn’t make me vote for them though.
How much wrong can one article be?
There’s barely any non-corporate content on the left on Youtube.
What’s the problem? If it was left-wing content, nobody would care..
Haven’t had single right wing content in youtube related to Finland. It’s all about what you watch. You can disable video history, and no suggestions come if that’s what you want.