YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content.
They’re supposed to enrage you so you use their platform longer, hate-share the videos so others use their platform, etc. They know what they’re doing.
Which is why I don’t share it, and I downvote it.
Clearly what I need to do next is immediately kill the tab or close the app.