The algorithm doesn't push anyone. It just gives you what it thinks you want. If Google decided what was true and then used the algorithm to remove what isn't true, that would be pushing things. Google isn't and shouldn't be the ministry of truth.

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woeirua 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly, they shouldn't be the ministry of truth. They should present balanced viewpoints on both sides of controversial subjects. But that's not what they're doing right now. If you watch too many videos on one side of a subject it will just show you more and more videos reinforcing that view point because you're likely to watch them!

	▲	terminalshort 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why should Youtube try to tell me what it thinks I should want to watch instead of what I actually want to watch? I'm not particularly interested in their opinion on that matter.

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TremendousJudge 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"what it thinks you want" is doing a lot of work here. why would it "think" that you want to be pushed into an echo chamber divorced from reality instead of something else? why would it give you exactly what you "want" instead of something aligned with some other value?

	▲	terminalshort 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Given the number of people that describes it's pretty clear that people do want that. It's not exactly a new and surprising thing that people want things that are bad for them.