YouTube Trying to Influence Your Political Opinion

With the widespread use of the Internet social networkshas become an integral part of our lives. Today, almost everyone with internet access spends a certain part of their day “hanging out” on social networks. A new study reveals that YouTube, the world’s most popular online video and live broadcasting platform, our political view He showed that he was trying to impress.

A group of researchers from the Center for Social Media and Policy at New York University, 1,063 adults conducted a research with The purpose of this research was to better understand YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. To reach the conclusion, the researchers identified 25 political and non-political videos, and asked the participants to start watching one of these videos at random, and then choose one of the top five suggested videos to continue watching. Each participant does this applied 20 times.

Regardless of your political affiliation, YouTube is trying to “darken” you

The researchers, who also conducted surveys about the political views of the participants within the scope of the research, reached very remarkable results. So much so that YouTube according to his political opinion was moving. Suggested videos move further to the left for left-wingers and over time for right-wingers moved further to the right. In other words, YouTube was reinforcing the user’s political opinion. However, according to experts “so light“It was intended to influence the level.

The research conducted in the USA revealed another remarkable result. All user data average field experts, YouTube in general supports the right view and they found that it was trying to lure users to the right view. Moreover, this situation regardless of political affiliation was taking place. However, experts could not understand why.

There was no explanation from Google or YouTube on the subject either…