Exactly. Public opinion polls show that the COVID vaccine is widely accepted. Yet every COVID-related video on the front page has an 80% or more dislike ratio. Antivaxxers have hijacked the dislike tool to spread their propaganda, and the correct response is to take their toys away.
Yes, but my feeling is that we go a step further. And I suspect most social media companies are already doing this under the hood:
Just as Google graphs the relationships between sites and uses that to rank them, also graph the relationships between users and use that to rank them.
Like, important figure who's followed by numerous media experts and is consistently upvoted by respected people? Their opinion has weight. 1000 score per updoot.
Crank who has few followers, gets all their news from extremists on youtube, and does nothing but hurl insults at politicians all day? 0.01 score per updoot.
It's not democratic, but information isn't a democracy.
Let them keep upvoting and downvoting. And take that information for what it's worth.
Controversial videos, or those by controversial creators, are the ones that get brigaded. If you're inside a filter bubble and can't see a dislike count how will you know what you're looking at is controversial? Yes, the ratio is not representative of the general population but it's the signal that matters.
Would you rather not know something is controversial?
What mechanism would you prefer for nudging people outside of filter bubbles?
I'm happy to be generous and consider all videos with heavy dislike ratios as victims of brigading and not of public sentiment.
What does that even mean? What makes you think saying yes to vaccine but no to vaccine mandates means they don't "accept the vaccine"?
> Additionally, most people agree with the mandates
From the latest poll [1] (conducted between 11/05-11/07):
> Table POL11: Even if neither is exactly correct, which of the following comes closest to your opinion? Government mandates to receive a COVID-19 vaccine
44% of registered voters say they violate the rights of Americans
45% of registered voters say they protect the rights of Americans
> What does that even mean? What makes you think saying yes to vaccine but no to vaccine mandates means they don't "accept the vaccine"?
Most videos about the COVID vaccine that we're talking about are simply stating that the vaccines are effective and safe. Calling those "propaganda" and "lying" is not accepting the truth about the vaccine.
> From the latest poll [1] (conducted between 11/05-11/07):
Vaccine mandate support is ahead by 1 point in this poll, yet COVID videos with correct information about the vaccine on YouTube are 80%+ dislikes. Precisely my point.
