After the installation of the most popular resident ever elected, some folks noticed that the videos on the White House YouTube channel all have many times more “dislikes” than “likes”. Take a look. It’s like a 20-to-1 ratio. But they also noticed that, over time, the number of “dislikes” would occasionally drop. (“Really? Drop?”) By a lot. Well, that’s strange. It’s as if YouTube was ratcheting down the number of dislikes when they got too high.  It turns out that YouTube has a software interface so it’s not difficult to write a program that repeatedly queries a YouTube video, gets the “likes” and “dislikes”, and plots them over time. And sure enough, it’s really, really clear that YouTube has an operation going on that removes large numbers of “dislikes” when they hit a certain threshold.
The site 81m.org does this for every video on the White House YouTube channel, and plots the “likes” in green, “dislikes” in dark red, and the calculated number of real “dislikes” in light red. They’ve archived the data on every White House video back to January 26. So this has been going on for over 4 months.
Zoe Phin wrote a fascinating article on this: White House Youtube Dislike Manipulation. With the source code. So you can try it yourself.
And here’s a video about it that was (are you ready…) removed from YouTube. On Rumble:
https://rumble.com/vdcuql-130k-dislikes-removed-from-white-house-youtube-channel-in-24-hours.html
Isn’t it crazy that the company that removes videos about election fraud is actively deleting votes on their own platform?
[Edit to take off the main feed. In case I ever need to get a job at G or YT.]
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At best it’s not a good look…
This is “old news” but it’s good to have occasional reminders.
The news is that it hasn’t stopped.
Okay but that’s not how the post reads to me. It reads like it was “breaking news.”
What did it look like during Trump?