A good article in which the author researched how Twitter’s algorithm pushed people interested in history into alt-right content.

Quote: “Adhering to my guidelines to follow accounts suggested by the algorithm, I clicked the “follow” button. This was the first time I was recommended content adjacent to alt-right and “manosphere” ideology. Prior to that, it was all history related. After “liking” approximately 100 Tweets, however, I saw that the accounts suggested to me were becoming increasingly political, and I was specifically being recommended accounts run by internet political commentators – as opposed to professional politicians or journalists. I cannot definitively call this observation evidence of being led down an alt-right pipeline, but it was interesting to note that those were the types of accounts suggested to me by the Twitter algorithm.”

  •  Devi   ( @Devi@beehaw.org ) 
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    212 months ago

    While this is an interesting article, I feel like in the current state of twitter Alt right accounts are promoted whatever you like. When I was on it I followed feminist type pages, local news, some left wing comedians, I was still frequently offered Andrew Tate and the like.

    • I was on youtube recently and I had a video suggested to me about how Elon Musk is a free speech advocate with all the comments making him out to be some saint. So it is not just Twitter that seems to have the alt right pipe line.

      •  Kichae   ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) 
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        22 months ago

        YouTube has been an alt-right pipeline for a very long time now. If you so much as smell right-leaning content in the next room, it wilk start serving you truck loads of right wing and alt-right recommendations.