Is There a Need for a Recommendation Engine?

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Youtube is still operating under the this is a good thing. Everything's mostly good, we just got to find the bad apples. But i think it's also hiring people that are experts in like the vict ation of children,. There are people who that's what they do. That'swhat they says. They know and they know where people are. Like, it sounds like an awful job, but the potential for awfulness is here, and it needs to be dealt with directly. And all the problems of humanity are going to be on these platforms. All the good is going to beonthee platforms too. So start there. Don't wait for it to bubble up. Actually

Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential problem.

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YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant — Bloomberg
Ben Thompson: Apple’s Services Event — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg’s Proposal, The Copyright Directive and Sunk Costs — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: YouTube and Toxic Videos, YouTube’s Problematic Incentives, Sins of Omission and Commission — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Pollyannish Assumption — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Wall Street Journal and Apple News, The Problem with Regulating Content](https://stratechery.com/2019/the-wall-street-journal-and-apple-news-the-problem-with-regulating-content-australias-terrible-new-law/)