New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content.

YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content.

  • EuphomaEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think they are AB testing no recommendations when not signed out. I use youtube not signed out a lot of the time and around 20% of the time when I open a tab with no cookies it shows no recommendations. Try again opening incognito mode a couple more times and you might see the recommendations.