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YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader quotes USA Today:
YouTube has changed its powerful search algorithm to promote videos from more mainstream news outlets in search results after people looking for details on the Las Vegas shooting were served up conspiracy theories and misinformation. YouTube confirmed the changes Thursday... In the days after the mass shooting, videos abounded on YouTube, some questioning whether the shooting occurred and others claiming law enforcement officials had deceived the public about what really happened...
Public outcry over YouTube videos promoting conspiracy theories is just the latest online flap for the major U.S. Internet companies. Within hours of the attack, Facebook and Google were called out for promoting conspiracy theories... Helping drive YouTube's popularity is the "Up next" column which suggests additional videos to viewers. The Wall Street Journal found incidents this week in which YouTube suggested videos promoting conspiracy theories next to videos from mainstream news sources. YouTube acknowledged issues with the "Up next" algorithm and said it was looking to promote more authoritative results there, too.
At least one video was viewed over a million times, and Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein writes that "I've received emails from Google users who report YouTube pushing links to some of those trending fake videos directly to their phones as notifications." He's suggesting that from now on, YouTube's top trending videos should be reviewed by actual humans.
Public outcry over YouTube videos promoting conspiracy theories is just the latest online flap for the major U.S. Internet companies. Within hours of the attack, Facebook and Google were called out for promoting conspiracy theories... Helping drive YouTube's popularity is the "Up next" column which suggests additional videos to viewers. The Wall Street Journal found incidents this week in which YouTube suggested videos promoting conspiracy theories next to videos from mainstream news sources. YouTube acknowledged issues with the "Up next" algorithm and said it was looking to promote more authoritative results there, too.
At least one video was viewed over a million times, and Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein writes that "I've received emails from Google users who report YouTube pushing links to some of those trending fake videos directly to their phones as notifications." He's suggesting that from now on, YouTube's top trending videos should be reviewed by actual humans.
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your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
the military/law enforcement are behind these attacks. most of the people who claim there's an issue secretly hold clearances, are actors, paid shills, etc.
these people are deliberately fucking with people in order to create this epidemic of fake conspiracy theories.
even though the mainstream media is equally as bad as reporting the news accurately, and they do it all for profit, with agendas and spin if they report on the real news at all, they are now being promoted on YouTube as the defacto standard when they aren't. now they have propelled themselves to the top of the search results, without even having to pay for it, and they've managed to eliminate the voices of others.
The website https://www.alternet.org/ is a legitimate news source, since the changes the elite wealthy wanted made were implemented in the Google search engine this summer, the website has seen over 2.5 million less readers, because their website is no longer being listed in search results.
Score for the wealthy elite world domination strategy, including their desire to control the information that gets in front of you, so they can continue to deceive us all and control the flow of information. It's the ultimate in psychological warfare, strategic mass deception, and COINTELPRO2016.
https://www.trumpsweapon.com/