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What will break the damn camel's back?: Youtube deletes 2.5mil 'dislikes' on Biden videos
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:48 pm
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YouTube has deleted about 2.5 million ‘dislikes’ from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous. YouTube recently announced that it’s testing a new page design that hides the dislike count.
The Google-owned video platform allows users to give videos either a thumb up (like) or thumb down (dislike). For at least two years, it’s had a policy to remove likes and dislikes it considers spam.
“We have policies and systems in place to ensure that the engagement on YouTube is authentic, and remove any fraudulent metrics,” a YouTube spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email, but when asked, wouldn’t go into details on what criteria it uses to make these calls.
The White House videos have seen these kinds of interventions on an ongoing basis, but it appears it’s only the dislikes that are disappearing.
The channel has posted more than 300 videos that have garnered nearly 3.7 million dislikes of which nearly 2.5 million were removed, according to data posted on the website 81m.org. The author of the website started to track the engagement on January 26 and has published all the data as well as the methodology used to collect it, but wouldn’t comment on his or her identity when asked via email.
YouTube is deleting close to 8,000 dislikes per video on average. Not a single like was removed, the data indicates.
Even after the interventions, the videos have nearly six times more dislikes than likes on average, the data shows. Without intervention the ratio would be over 17 dislikes for every like.
Posts on social media indicate that some supporters of former President Donald Trump make a point of disliking the Biden White House videos. The videos often get thousands of dislikes shortly after popping online, only for a large portion of the dislikes being deleted later.
In some cases, batches of dislikes would be removed about once an hour, keeping the dislike count around the same number. In other cases, a large portion of dislikes would be chopped down at once, the data indicates.
The website 81m.org lists results of the same analysis for several other YouTube channels with large followings. None of them exhibited dislike removals of this magnitude.
Videos of PewDiePie, one of the most popular channels on the platform, do show some like and dislike removals, but never more than a few dozen per video, based on a review of the data for the past more than two dozen videos on the channel.
YouTube recently announced testing of a design that still includes the dislike button, but no longer shows the number of dislikes.
“This is a test for a small group of users and is a response to creator feedback that the visible count may impact their wellbeing,” a spokesperson said via email.
YouTube and its owner, Google, have long faced accusations of political bias. The companies have said their products are developed and run as politically neutral, but employee accounts and leaked internal materials indicate the companies are infusing their politics into their products.
According to research psychologist Robert Epstein, Google shifted millions of votes in the Nov. 3 election by skewing its search results and other tools, compared to competitors.
“Google search results were strongly biased in favor of liberals and Democrats. This was not true on Bing or Yahoo,” Epstein told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, referring to data from more than 700 voters who worked with him to monitor what results they were receiving from channels such as search results, reminders, search suggestions, and newsfeeds ahead of the election.
Google previously rejected Epstein’s research results.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-deleted-2-5-million-dislikes-from-biden-white-house-videos-data-indicates_3759997.html
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:49 pm to xGeauxLSUx
Fact. We are living in a Fascist country.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:50 pm to xGeauxLSUx
They would sue Trump to post negative shite on his site: different rules for the corrupt
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:52 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
True. We have gone from cooperate fascism to fascism.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:09 pm to xGeauxLSUx
Lol so his dislikes were far worse than they are now
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:17 pm to xGeauxLSUx
The narrative is under control constantly.
Scary stuff.
Scary stuff.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:29 pm to xGeauxLSUx
Closing your eyes to how much people dislike will not change their minds.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:31 pm to xGeauxLSUx
And they have disabled comments for every video. But it's just a coincidence, right? Most popular President in history!
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:41 pm to xGeauxLSUx
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Even after the interventions, the videos have nearly six times more dislikes than likes on average, the data shows. Without intervention the ratio would be over 17 dislikes for every like.
Pretty much says it all right there.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:44 pm to xGeauxLSUx
I will now go to WH youtube to open and dislike anything I can. It is childish but it will be fun.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:45 pm to xGeauxLSUx
they don't want us to know that Biden, the most popular president (81 million votes)in American history isn't well liked...
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:53 pm to xGeauxLSUx
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Even after the interventions, the videos have nearly six times more dislikes than likes on average, the data shows. Without intervention the ratio would be over 17 dislikes for every like.
^^^^^^ Yet we’re to believe that 80 million Americans voted for this Marxist buffoon. I don’t think so!
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:56 pm to xGeauxLSUx
But he’s so popular. frick Biden.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 9:08 pm to xGeauxLSUx
The left is no different than the early stages of the Nazi party.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 9:21 pm to xGeauxLSUx
And they won't allow Trump's voice on their platform.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 9:24 pm to xGeauxLSUx
Will Chicken follow suit and delete the down votes that leftists get on this site?
Posted on 4/2/21 at 10:48 pm to Bass Tiger
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80 million Americans voted for this Marxist buffoon
Actually well over 81 million. And most really had no idea he would automatically sign all executive orders put on his desk, without reviewing the content, create the chaotic mess on the border, and basically act in the radical manner that he has. Biden was the reasonable moderate alternative to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
And I know Republicans who were former Trumpists who abandoned him after the onset of the pandemic and his flippant dismissal of the severity of the COVID disease, and then went for Biden in the general, and other conservatives who approved of Trump's foreign policy accomplishments, but were fed up with his childish tweets and coarse tone, and voted for Biden in November. So make your own conclusions about the American electorate.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 10:53 pm to East Coast Band
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Twitter is the same way
Reddit is worse.
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