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There are very similar issues with YouTube's "Rabbit Hole of Extremism" [1]. YT's algo has noticed that "mild" extremist content gets views and by feeding you progressively more extreme content in series, people get sucked in. I expect this wasn't even planned. It was generated.

It got my father. Living in rural area, cable/satellite TV became too expensive and low quality. So, us kids paid for an internet connection for him. Given only YouTube to inform him, he went from a generally relaxed redneck to talking about how "black community is a lost cause" and "we need to glass (nuke) the middle east and take their oil" in a very short time.

We got Netflix for him and he's calmed back down some. But, definitely not back to where he was before.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo...

>>mindca+(OP)
I've seen this too and it's really worrying. I don't understand what can be done about that. A legal solution seems difficult and will probably have some negative side effects. I think people just need to slowly learn how dangerous it is to fall into these traps.