‘I listened to videos about how he will help’: Latino voters turned to YouTube, WhatsApp for election information
‘I listened to videos about how he will help’: Latino voters turned to YouTube, WhatsApp for election information
The growing demographic group turns to social media for news more than other demographic groups, research shows.
Misinformation drove these people to vote for Trump. This is going be leopard eating their faces. Sad and shows just how much fake videos and misinformation can influence our elections.
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"turning to Youtube" doesn't really say much one way or another. There is a wide range of content from professional media over smaller alternative media outlets over individual opinion pieces to manufactured disinformation from state actors all hosted on Youtube.
The algorithm doesn't really send you down the helpful rabbit holes in my experience. Every reasonable video on YouTube is like two away from Infowars level content.
I use Freetube so my algorithm has been slightly neutered. Yet I have gotten video recommendations that are all about “End Wokeness in Games” or “Trump is going to save us.” Those videos will take you directly to the far right.
Yep and as per usual everyone in the media and in big tech that helped misinform all the voters will say "oh it's so weird that such and such a group moved to Trump" as if they had nothing at all to do with it.