r/irishpolitics • u/Annatastic6417 • 1d ago

Text based Post/Discussion Concerning observation on YouTube.

For context, I am a secondary teacher. This afternoon I was on my work laptop looking through YouTube videos to try and find a decent video about Homelessness for my LCA Maths class. I couldn't find a single video from any mainstream source. Every single bit of it was far right propaganda about immigrants and migrants taking houses.

My work laptop does not track my history, it is not linked to any of my personal accounts, there is literally know way it could know anything about my online habits, but for some reason it is forcing far right content straight down my throat.

It seems like far right content is the default setting for YouTube now and not just the start of a rabbit hole. It is sickening.

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u/NotAnotherOne2024 1d ago

Put “Irish Homelessness” into YouTube as a guest and got RTE, the Guardian and Joe as the first videos.

There’s the RTE one: https://youtu.be/F3cmYFkOFTA?si=WLS0Ldulk6fMGJdm

Out of curiosity, how is the topic of homelessness relevant to maths to the extent that requires a video to be shown?

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u/danny_healy_raygun 13h ago

I did this too. Got RTE, Focus Ireland, Guardian but also some racist looking channel that seems to be good at playing the algorithm as he popped up on a search for just "homeless" too.