Overall, i think any propaganda slips through your brain and leaves traces, just like any form of advertisement. This invisible spot in western worldview ("let's fix human rights with more bombs") leaves plenty of room for Daech to recruit young disillusioned folks who know their government is lying and killing innocent civilians abroad France/USA who pretend they're on armed humanitarian missions against barbarism and patriarchy (an argument for colonization which dates back over a century!). Daech and other reactionary muslim militant groups insist on the atrocities of Western "democracies" to justify their own these imperialist atrocities are never acknowledged by eg.
After all, Hitler was presented by the media and industry (his biggest supports) as the candidate of reason and property against unions and marxists/anarchists and their rule of the mob Hitler is also "caricatured" as a genocidal freak, failing to represent his earlier figure which is a lot closer to many of our "presidents" across the globe than is comfortable to admit.
Hitler apologists point out that US army atrocities (during and after WWII) have been mostly erased from history books on the other hand, Hitler's atrocities have been reduced to the eradication of Jews, whereas queers, handicapped folks and tsigans (among others who have also been eradicated) are barely mentioned if at all. moreover, prison slavery is still a thing in most countries which do not recognize workers rights for incarcerated people (France, USA, etc) abolition of slavery in the USA was not perceived by many (former-)slaves as social progress, but rather as legitimization of a new form of "wage slavery" where your master doesn't own you, but you owe them for food and housing. There's not a one-size-fits-all algo that's going to please everyone: decentralizing this power is the only suitable way, in my humble opinion.Īs a militant antifascist, i still find it interesting to have some reactionary perspectives to balance the dominant narrative. I often know precisely what i'm looking for (an article i saw a few years back), but stupid ranking algorithms make it impossible to find in the stream of information. I would personally welcome "Goggles" as a positive change. That's why clicking "critically" on a link because you're curious what an "opposite side" has to say is a dangerous enterprise with recommendation algos: you'll be subtly yet persistently exposed to their propaganda ecosystem as a result. It will keep recommending the same sites/channels everywhere you go, for months. Once you've clicked one of these results, Google's algos will deem you interested in that kind of content, and suddenly it's impossible to avoid that bubble. Then, there's personalized recommendations. Likewise, Google search often promotes white/christian-supremacist "news" websites like FDeSouche in the top5 results for random queries. Google and Youtube (like many others) are well-known to have pushed neo-fascist and conspirationist propaganda to random bystanders (Alex Jones or Trump in the USA, Dieudonné or Soral in France) because their "controversial" viewpoints generate more user engagement. 1) Everything is political, and so are search results and suggestionsĢ) Personalized results/suggestions, moreover, tend to fit the perceived political views of the user (from the algorithm's perspective)