I watch a lot of progressive political content on youtube, and am still bombarded by far right ads, like “Epoch Time” etc.

Im not sure what “Earn Tech” is but no way am I clicking on this.

But this is a new one, this is clearly an AI generated image of Trudeau - trying to make him look angry? I wonder how bad these are going to get. Anyone else seen any?

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    They’re all over Youtube. Especially the shorts. I’ve given up on trying to report them, at this point, it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Started noticing them a month or two ago.

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    You’ve got to be impressed with how to the point the title is. “There’s a thing that happened! Learn about the thing before it’s too late!” is actually foundation click bait titles are made on.

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    These are the scams that promise Canadians that Elon Musk is giving them billions of dollars for some reason.

    It’s interesting how when you want to scam someone you mention Crypto, Elon Musk, and Trudeau hatred to narrow the audience to only the most stupid.

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      narrow the audience to only the most stupid.

      This is a totally legit method for filtering out the people too smart to fall for the scam. That’s why scam eMails are so poorly written – to entice only the dumbest segment of society to find out more.

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    I keep getting ads about far right bullshit and suggested videos as well. It’s almost as if they want far right radicalisation.

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      It’s an alt-right leaning bias driven by engagement. Hank Green made a video a while ago showcasing a similar issue on Google Image search. Basically, normal users scrolling through content will see a thumbnail for something outrageous so they will click on it out of curiosity which boosts engagement. The algorithm takes notice and starts feeding similar content.

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          Yes, same! I only watch progressive news sources and podcasts. But I did watch a bunch of cbc lately, maybe so many conservatives were hate-watching it skewed the algorithm

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            I’m wondering why I get political ads for milhouse after watching a channel like second thought or Beau of the fifth column.

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            The algorithm is primed by engagement. It is almost certain that progressives are most likely to engage with this ad and ones like it.

            Why would anyone else? Those who lean right will think: “Not that blowhard again. Yawn.” and those who pay no mind to politics will think: “I don’t know who that is. Next.” But the progressives will think: “Hey, I know that guy. I wonder what he said now? <click>”

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    When newspapers were the only source of news … government had to regulate them because they were used as political tools

    When network television became popular … government had to step in to regulate this industry as well

    Now everyone gets all their information and news from social media … there is no regulation of this industry and now everyone is suffering from either a lack of information, an abundance of non-information, plenty of misinformation and lots of disinformation

    Regulate social media because they are society’s modern newspapers

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    I keep seeing them too! It’s always some “news report” looking format with either angry Justin or confident PP (weird how that works).