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> If liberals in your country are good at technology and conservatives are not, the liberal point of view will look like it's being pushed.

Awareness of the rules makes a difference too.

If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS (as might happen with particularly polarized members), they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway. It's creators that sit firmly within the rules or carefully run right up alongside their boundaries that do well in the long term.



> If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS... they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway.

They are also able to get feedback and learn how to adapt, in the cat-and-mouse game of spam/SEO/wrongthink. IMO, these groups are the ones that know how to exploit the algorithms best, because they have a ruthless survivalship happening.


It’s not just that. There’s a very real outrage machine on the right that works the refs so they get a breaks for what are very obvious TOS violations.




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