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It’s probably better in the long run. Extremism is linked with violence (more from the right than the left, but) and YouTube is a global platform. It’s likely they will be trying to push more moderate content that gets the facts right over sensational opinion.

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lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
One would hope but that isn’t what makes them money.

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- kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ultimately, the timidity of the advertisers is going to drive youtube towards less controversial and less polarizing content.
  
  Witness the previous “adpocalypses” and the content policy responses.
  
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Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They’d probably filter out any too harsh content too, so that we can live in our little cotton insulated world’s…

I mean they’ll decide what is “bad”, and that’s probably bad in itself.

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- Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If you’re relying solely on a platform like YouTube for your information, you’re not getting the full picture anyway.
  
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  - Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hey, you’re not sneaking off to Apple news or worse bing news eh!?!
    
    News nowadays is really a hassle.
    
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    Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I do use Apple News because I use Apple products. It’s a nice window into the newspapers of today.
    
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