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Youtube suffers from the same pitfalls as FB: they actively promote tinfoil hat content, by design, because it makes money.

Removing individual videos is a red herring. They will persist to profit from promoting conspiracy content, and so they will. Cherry-picking a few things will just make this worse.

They're going this direction to pay lip service while avoiding changing their algorithms. Fuels the fire.



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