The wrongful death lawsuit against several social media companies for allegedly contributing to the radicalization of a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, will be allowed to proceed.
Facebook will have actively pushed this stuff. Reddit will have just ignored it, and YouTube just feeds your own bubble back to you.
YouTube doesn’t radicalize people, it only increases their existing radicalization, but the process must start elsewhere, and to be completely fair they do put warnings and links to further information on the bottom of questionable videos, and they also delist quite a lot of stuff as well.
I don’t know what’s better to completely block conspiracy theory videos or to allow them and then have other people mock them.
Well I don’t know who that is, my which is my point really. I’m assuming he’s some right wing conspiracy theorist but because I’m not already pre-disposed to listen to that kind of stuff I don’t get it in my recommendations.
Meanwhile Facebook would actively promote that stuff.
Facebook will have actively pushed this stuff. Reddit will have just ignored it, and YouTube just feeds your own bubble back to you.
YouTube doesn’t radicalize people, it only increases their existing radicalization, but the process must start elsewhere, and to be completely fair they do put warnings and links to further information on the bottom of questionable videos, and they also delist quite a lot of stuff as well.
I don’t know what’s better to completely block conspiracy theory videos or to allow them and then have other people mock them.
Hard disagree that YouTube doesn’t radicalize people. It’s far too easy to have Ben Shapiro show up in the recommendations.
Well I don’t know who that is, my which is my point really. I’m assuming he’s some right wing conspiracy theorist but because I’m not already pre-disposed to listen to that kind of stuff I don’t get it in my recommendations.
Meanwhile Facebook would actively promote that stuff.