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sagesnow

(2,824 posts) Mon Jul 8, 2019, 11:04 PM Jul 2019

New YouTube Algorithm Favors Corporate Media Over Independent News Sources (TDPS)

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New YouTube Algorithm Favors Corporate Media Over Independent News Sources (TDPS) (Original Post) sagesnow Jul 2019 OP

Politics and Media in bed with corporate dollars? NO WAY!!! (SHOCKING NEWS!!!!!) (SARCASM DRIP ON) Moostache Jul 2019 #1

Maybe they're trying to favor media over conspiracy theory sources, AJT Jul 2019 #2

And maybe some people are threatened by that jberryhill Jul 2019 #3

10 years ago this story would have made me outraged Downtown Hound Jul 2019 #4

Moostache

(9,897 posts)

1. Politics and Media in bed with corporate dollars? NO WAY!!! (SHOCKING NEWS!!!!!) (SARCASM DRIP ON)

Reply to sagesnow (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 11:15 PM

Jul 2019

Seriously? Is ANYONE with an IQ above room temperature actually SURPRISED by this?
This right up there with "water is wet" and "night is dark" to me...

AJT

(5,240 posts)

2. Maybe they're trying to favor media over conspiracy theory sources,

Reply to sagesnow (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 11:42 PM

Jul 2019

fake news sources, etc.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. And maybe some people are threatened by that

Reply to AJT (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 12:21 AM

Jul 2019

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

4. 10 years ago this story would have made me outraged

Reply to sagesnow (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2019, 08:59 PM

Jul 2019

No longer. Youtube has become such a cesspool of disinformation that I find myself viewing the corporate media I once hated with more fondness. Not that they don't have a lot of problems, but I'll take them over virtually all of the conspiratorial, reich wing crap I see all over youtube.

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