Okay, so a lot of social media platforms favor right-wing or even outright fascist views. There are systemic reasons for this. Capitalists are usually chummy with fascists because they're useful idiots who don't get much in the way of profits and keep the commies down. Culture war bullshit drives clicks. Answering to shareholders and the state department means crushing leftist voices until only the far right remains.
But for my conspiracy theory, I suspect that some group of managers and upper execs at YouTube are deliberately, specifically working to use the platform to promote white supremacist and fascist ideas, outside of all the usual systemic reasons, because they're true believers of that shit. And whoever got it started has nepotism networked it enough that that whole branch of Google's org chart is full of them.
Okay, so a lot of social media platforms favor right-wing or even outright fascist views. There are systemic reasons for this. Capitalists are usually chummy with fascists because they're useful idiots who don't get much in the way of profits and keep the commies down. Culture war bullshit drives clicks. Answering to shareholders and the state department means crushing leftist voices until only the far right remains.
But for my conspiracy theory, I suspect that some group of managers and upper execs at YouTube are deliberately, specifically working to use the platform to promote white supremacist and fascist ideas, outside of all the usual systemic reasons, because they're true believers of that shit. And whoever got it started has nepotism networked it enough that that whole branch of Google's org chart is full of them.