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How YouTube Became a Perpetual Nazi Machine

Behind the Bastards

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Alex Jones Videos Are Like a Four Hour Show

Gillum Chastlow tweeted that the algorithms on Google recommended Alex Jones videos more than 15 billion times to some of those vulnerable people in the nation. That's why if you watched a video criticizing gun control, YouTube would serve you up Alex Jones claiming the New World Order under Obama was going to confiscate your gun so it could carry out genocide. If you watch coverage of the Sandy Hook Massacre, YouTube would hand you Alex Jones claiming all the children involved were crisis actors. It's probable that no single person benefited as much from YouTube's Google Brain algorithm changes as Alex Jones. And because he's much more extreme, he's like compelling to those people.

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