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Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (4 children)

YouTube feeds me so much right wing bullshit I'm constantly marking it as not interested. It's a definite problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

It's amazing how often I get a video from some right wing source suggested to me companting about censorship and being buried by youtube. I ended up installing a third party channel blocker to deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I can't prove that they were related but I used to report all conservative ads (Hillsdale Epoch times etc) to Google with all caps messages how I was going to start calling the advertisers directly and yell at them for the ads, about 2-3 days after I started doing that the ads stopped.

I would love for other people to start doing this to confirm that it works and to be free of the ads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

That worked for me also. I like a lot of sports docs on YouTube. That triggered non stop Joe Rogan suggestions and ads for all kinds of right wing news trash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I quit drinking years ago and I reported every (e alcohol) ad explaining that I am no longer their target market and the ads are literally dangerous to me. They were gone within a few weeks - haven't seen a booze ad in 5+ years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Is fucking insane how much that happens I stopped using Instagram for that reason at least yt listened to my "not interested" choices. I also have revnaced so IDK what ads it would shoot at me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

YouTube started feeding me that stuff too. Weirdly once I started reporting all of them as misinformation they stop showing up for some reason...