Just out of curiosity - we have people on this thread and on other parts of the internet, claiming they'll watch one "extremist", typically right wing video, and then have their recommendations blitzed with even more extreme/right wing content. This is the "rabbit hole" effect that's being referred to in the article.
Can anyone say that they have distinctly not encountered this effect? I can recall having watched maybe a couple of Joe Rogan clips, a Jordan Peterson interview, and even some stuff I would label alt-right content. I'm personally fairly left-ish/liberal, so I find these videos boring/offensive and eventually will go back to my normal youtube consumption - music, sports, some tech videos.
My recommendations are all of the latter categories, not of extreme/political right wing category. I guess due to selection bias, most people who don't have a problem with their recommendations won't report anything, while most people who do will leave comments that they too experienced the rabbit hole effect. I'm wondering if that leads to the problem described being overstated. Or am I really the only person who's managed to watch some fairly extreme right wing content, and had my recommended videos stay intact?
Can anyone say that they have distinctly not encountered this effect? I can recall having watched maybe a couple of Joe Rogan clips, a Jordan Peterson interview, and even some stuff I would label alt-right content. I'm personally fairly left-ish/liberal, so I find these videos boring/offensive and eventually will go back to my normal youtube consumption - music, sports, some tech videos.
My recommendations are all of the latter categories, not of extreme/political right wing category. I guess due to selection bias, most people who don't have a problem with their recommendations won't report anything, while most people who do will leave comments that they too experienced the rabbit hole effect. I'm wondering if that leads to the problem described being overstated. Or am I really the only person who's managed to watch some fairly extreme right wing content, and had my recommended videos stay intact?