this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
471 points (94.9% liked)

Technology

60116 readers
2856 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
471
YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
162 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation::When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the ... [continued]

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure it's YouTube doing that and not just bot accounts? It seems like you're jumping to the conspiracy conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that's true, that would indicate that the vast majority of comments are just bot spam, making it even more of a cesspool than I originally thought. None of the comments are advertising anything. I guess there's money to be made in stuffing the comment section in either direction.