YouTube’s recommendations pushed election denial content to election deniers
by Nicole Wetsman from The Verge - All Posts on (#6355S)
A video of Trump at the hearings investigating the January 6th attack on the US Capitol | Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool / Getty Images YouTube's recommendation algorithm pushed more videos about election fraud to people who were already skeptical about the 2020 election's legitimacy, according to a new study. There were a relatively low number of videos about election fraud, but the most skeptical YouTube users saw three times as many of them as the least skeptical users.
The more susceptible you are to these types of narratives about the election...the more you would be recommended content about that narrative," says study author James Bisbee, who's now a political scientist at Vanderbilt University.
In the wake of his 2020 election loss, former President Donald Trump has promoted the false claim that the election was stolen, calling for a repeat election as recently...