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from the Why-is-it-you-can-"regret"-but-cannot-just-"gret"? dept.
Mozilla is trying to shame YouTube into doing more to fix its numerous recommendation algorithm issues, many of which can lead users down dangerous content spirals.
With a new social media campaign called #YouTubeRegrets, Mozilla is asking people to submit their own experiences of falling down the recommendation rabbit hole, and discuss how they got from point A to point B. Everything is done through a Google Doc, which includes a little more information about the project.
"Once, at 2 a.m., you searched YouTube for 'Did aliens build Stonehenge?' Ever since, your YouTube recommendations have been a mess: Roswell, wormholes, Illuminati," Mozilla writes. "YouTube's recommendation engine can lead users down bizarre rabbit holes — and they're not always harmless."
If, somehow, you find insufficient distraction on YouTube, check out this oldie-but-goodie 19 Wikipedia Pages That'll Send You Into A Week-Long Wikihole. It's exactly what's on the tin; highly recommended. Unless you have too much to do; in that case do NOT go there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @06:32PM (3 children)
It may have changed, but last time I looked PBS Newshour came close. Also last time I looked CBS wasn't too bad.b Then again, my biases could just be showing and I haven't give
Where I'd lay the blame is the concept that news has to run 24/7. While everything is important to someone there really isn't a need for constant-live news. We used to get this back in the days of Headline News (before they puked overthemselves figuring out that 'personalities' draw ratings which led into the HLN unwatchable mess). Even though the Internet can supply me with a half hour newscast on my schedule I miss the days of the repeating half hour news report. I could leave it on for 6 hours doing other stuff and abosorbing what I wanted. Can't do that in the modern "lookatmelookatmelookatmelookatme" society that makes both CNN, FOX, and a Trump presidency possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @08:16PM (2 children)
When was the last time? Post 2013 the propaganda has been turned up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @09:41PM (1 child)
What happened around 2013 to make this propaganda spin up? Not just in the US, but also in Western Europe.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @10:49PM
You'll have to watch the real news on youtube to find out (NDAA 2013 legalized targeting the American public with propaganda) .