Why do you believe “the process must start elsewhere”? I’ve literally had YouTube start feeding me this sort of content, which I have no interest in at all and actively try to avoid. It seems very obvious that YouTube is a major factor in inculcating these belief systems in people who would otherwise not be exposed to them without YouTube ensuring they reach an audience.
Facebook will have actively pushed this stuff. Reddit will have just ignored it, and YouTube just feeds your own bubble back to you.
YouTube doesn’t radicalize people, it only increases their existing radicalization, but the process must start elsewhere, and to be completely fair they do put warnings and links to further information on the bottom of questionable videos, and they also delist quite a lot of stuff as well.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 6 months ago
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
YouTube would hit me hard with religious messaging and rightwing stuff. Which is not at all reflective of what content I want to view.
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Hard disagree that YouTube doesn’t radicalize people. It’s far too easy to have Ben Shapiro show up in the recommendations.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Well I don’t know who that is, my which is my point really. I’m assuming he’s some right wing conspiracy theorist but because I’m not already pre-disposed to listen to that kind of stuff I don’t get it in my recommendations.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Consider yourself lucky.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Yeah I feel like people are missing my point I don’t know who it is and I don’t get recommended his content.
The only people who get recommended his content are people who are already going to be thinking along those lines and watching videos along those lines.
YouTube does not radicalize people they do it to themselves.