Misinformation drove these people to vote for Trump. This is going be leopard eating their faces. Sad and shows just how much fake videos and misinformation can influence our elections.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    “turning to Youtube” doesn’t really say much one way or another. There is a wide range of content from professional media over smaller alternative media outlets over individual opinion pieces to manufactured disinformation from state actors all hosted on Youtube.

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      2 hours ago

      The algorithm doesn’t really send you down the helpful rabbit holes in my experience. Every reasonable video on YouTube is like two away from Infowars level content.