[ExI] youtube a radicalizer

Tom Nowell nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 13 20:07:20 UTC 2018


I had a similar experience - I went to youtube to watch some songs from the musical "Cabaret", finishing with "Tomorrow belongs to me". The first ones suggested I might like other musical theatre songs. "Tomorrow belongs to me" suggested the Horst Wessel Lied and a little ditty called "Bring back the Black and Tans" which I decided to click on. Imagine my surprise to discover this was a partisan song supporting the Loyalist cause in Northern Ireland.  Clearly Ulster Protestant radicals enjoy a bit of Cabaret, and their taste is changing youtube algorithms.
I have found one way of shifting the settings - I took part in a contest where participants each rated the other participants favourite music videos. As we all had different tastes, we all found youtube suggesting random things we'd never look at normally.
Tom
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