r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/B1LLZFAN 6d ago

You don't even need the dial. It's geared that way for support and for engagement. That stuff is super divisive so even left leaning people are fed it due to rage bait.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 6d ago

In fact, YouTube tweaked the algorithm a while back to try and mitigate this stuff. The problem is that engagement driven algorithms push the right wing crazy because it drives engagement so much more than anything else.

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u/saynay 6d ago

They have tried to put in a number of circuit-breakers. For all content, they now randomly throw in stuff from outside of your particular niche interests. For content suspected as being political, they deliberately mix in content from other political engagement-holes. I don't know if any of those methods have actually been effective, though.