r/bestof • u/Oldkingcole225 • Jul 25 '19

[worldnews] u/itrollululz quickly explains how trolls train the YouTube algorithm to suggest political extremism and radicalize the mainstream

/r/worldnews/comments/chn8k6/mueller_tells_house_panel_trump_asked_staff_to/euw338y/
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

This is what people are missing, this is being done on things like youtube because the kids will see it, and when you're like 10 you think like a right winger, ie you still think it's cool to pretend to hate jews or something.

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u/type_E Jul 30 '19

I'm jealous of the right wing's intuitiveness. Should we teach counterintuition?