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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

YouTube is getting particularly bad about this to, unfortunately. They need to do more to remove harmful misinformation, but they don't care because it won't make them money.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've had to remove a lot of recommendations. Man, PragerU, Crowder, Shapiro and Joe Rogan were in my feeds. Jeez.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

The unfortunate thing is a lot of people won't remove it from their recommendations and will watch it, and the worse thing is there's actually even worse content than those you listed, it's awful.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For real. Not logged in, on a new PC, just having watched a few gaming videos and got recommended US right wing nonsense. I am not in the US, no VPN, nothing. No ability to tell them to stop showing me that garbage. Hell, just let me disable shorts in general.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It really sucks that YT has such shit "don't show me stuff" controls. Sometimes it feels like asking to not get recommended a certain channel will instead show all the alternatives that feel and look just like it

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I have blocked so many right wing channels that my de facto suggestions after watching political shit is Zach gun rants, Arma ops, and Animarchy or one of the other NAFO associates. Its fucken great.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Youtube is good as a video hosting website, but bad as anything social-related. I just treat it like a video website and ignore the rest. Private browsing mode, no login used is my preferred way to access youtube videos

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Honestly I prefer having an account specifically so I can filter out the garbage fake harmful dangerous content so I don't have to see it.