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YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com)
YouTube said today that it is retooling its recommendation algorithm that suggests new videos to users in order to prevent promoting conspiracies and false information, reflecting a growing willingness to quell misinformation on the world's largest video platform after several public missteps. From a report: These recommendations all too often serve up unsavory content: ludicrous conspiracy theories about mass-shooting events being staged, far-fetched proclamations that the moon landing never happened, and hare-brained notions that the Earth on which we live is, well, flat. Moving forward, YouTube promises that you'll see less of those kinds of videos. This is similar to moves it's made in the past to reduce clickbaity recommendations, or videos that are slight variations on something else you've watched.
"We'll continue that work this year, including taking a closer look at how we can reduce the spread of content that comes close to -- but doesn't quite cross the line of -- violating our Community Guidelines," YouTube said in a blog post. "While this shift will apply to less than one percent of the content on YouTube, we believe that limiting the recommendation of these types of videos will mean a better experience for the YouTube community."
"We'll continue that work this year, including taking a closer look at how we can reduce the spread of content that comes close to -- but doesn't quite cross the line of -- violating our Community Guidelines," YouTube said in a blog post. "While this shift will apply to less than one percent of the content on YouTube, we believe that limiting the recommendation of these types of videos will mean a better experience for the YouTube community."
One of the great ironies about the fake news crisis since the 2016 election has been the fact that there was no urgency to combat fake news prior to Trump. The most-viewed version of the Loose Change "documentary" about how the US government orchestrated and covered up 9/11 is now 6 years old and has 2.7 million views. Another version entitled "BEST 9/11 Documentary: If You Seek TRUTH, WATCH THIS" has 4.7 million views. I specifically remember how it was first located on Google Video prior to Google acquiring Youtube, and was online around 2005-2006. It's interesting that fake news only becomes a crisis when it might impact the causes and politics that align with the political biases of those in the media and Facebook/Twitter/Google executives.
New York, not Chicago, d'oh. The Illinois article before this was on my mind and I farted that. See how easy it is to "debunk" your own theory with a simple mistake? Still, what of the actual truth was proven either way?
None of it. We can only note that Larry Silverstein collected 6 Billion dollars in insurance he signed up for about 2-3 months before the event, marked by "elevator repairs" with the power off for weeks, no cameras or locks.
But you know, elevators in buildings requiring hundreds of millions of dollars in retrofits... it's plausible either way isn't it? Sure a hijacker's undamaged passport can fall to the street and land in a cop's hand. Why not? Prove it.
about cabals trying to control what you can see and hear by forming one of their own ?
Well bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/ will be happy for the traffic, and seeing as they are distributed and powered by bit torrent it should make a nice alternative to the company that used to "Do No Evil"
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It is not even close to the top of my list to listen to Conspiracy Theories. Hell, I usually tell people to wrap that tin foil hat a little tighter. But it is a fact that there are Conspiracy Theories that have turned out to be true. Who the fuck is google(notice my link is youtube) to say what is true and what is not.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
I agree comrade! We know much more than the average person. Rather than dealing with people on a one on one basis and sometimes agreeing to disagree, we should have our glorious and impartial tech, governmental, and corporate overlords decide what we can and cannot read, see, or hear!
On a serious note, we need to educate people to think critically. It's a long game and you'll have to fight the urge to drop into the fetal position when you fully understand that the vote of flat earth guy, who you've calmly reasoned with and still won't accept your conclusions, counts exactly as much as yours. One of the lessons of history is that control of knowledge is power. We should approach free speech the same way we should approach the justice system. It is better to let 100 guilty men free then to deprive one innocent man of his freedom by imprisonment.