Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
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The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Now that they’ve entrenched an entire alternative universe in an election-winning proportion of the population, they don’t need it anymore.

    Unless YouTube is going to be deliberately directing people to deprogramming content it’s too late.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A lot of damage is done, certainly, but I think any success they have will depend on keeping up this bullshit. New voters are growing up all the time. The less chance for them to fall down the QAnon conspiracy after they just wanted to find some video game guide content, the better.