Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content
Society should discuss if recommendation algorithms and targeted advertisement must be regulated. It is known that people have more probability of sharing content that shocks them more. It lights a cycle where recommendation algorithms will give users ever increasing extremism inducing videos. This makes people more radical and makes them consume more of the same drug-like content.<p>Result: polarized society and a few content creators making a good amount of money generating extremist content and google and advertisers making billions regardless of how much they threat democracy elsewhere. Yes, people are making lots of money with lies and half-truths. It is well known and I think that some liars know they are lying but don&#x27;t care because they are making money.<p>My girlfriend&#x27;s father ate so much of these absurd things that nobody sane can talk to him anymore. Last year, after elections, he insisted that Lula was dead and that someone was impersonating him. At the new years eve, instead of spending time with his family, he was watching one of these youtube channels expecting to see a coup in brazil. He is still saying to everyone that our money in banks will be seized by the government.<p>Summarizing: recommendation algorithms and targeted advertisement are destroying families and people.