YouTube is to Blame for People Believing the Earth is Flat, Psychologists Say

Pomidor Quixote
Daily Stormer
February 19, 2019

The self-proclaimed mental health authorities are exercising their Jew-given power to advance the censorship agenda of their hand-rubbing masters by expressing their concern about people being exposed to the wrong kind of information.

Daily Mail:

The rise in people who think the Earth is flat is caused by convincing YouTube videos that ‘promote misinformation’, psychologists have suggested.

Researchers say the platform should present a more balanced list of content rather than one-sided conspiracy theories.

They said that YouTube needs to make changes to its algorithms to make their systems more accurate but also called on experts to create content to disprove the claims. 

The Flat Earth movement is just the attack vector they’ve picked to make people think they’re doing this for the common good since people are likelier to agree that YouTube should stop spreading “false flat earth stuff” than they are to agree that YouTube should stop spreading legitimate political views deemed dangerous under the label of “right-wing.”

Make no mistake. The ultimate goal of all of these “tweaking algorithms” talk is to keep right-wing content off the public view, making it almost unreachable unless you really specifically explicitly search for it.

It’s their way of working around the fact that officially kicking right-wingers off of their platform would cause major social outcry.

This way, they present their censorship tool as a weapon of good.

Don’t fall for it. Push for free speech. Defending free speech means defending the right of all YouTube users to have an equal shot at building their audience without being discriminated against by some shady algorithms.

People believing the earth is flat is by far the least of our current problems.

The researchers, from Texas Tech University, said that their suspicions were solidified when they went to two Flat Earth conventions in North Carolina and Denver last year and in 2017.

They interviewed 30 attendees where a pattern became evident in how they became convinced that the Earth was flat.

Of the 30 people, only one said that they believed the Earth was round until two years ago but changed their minds after watching Youtube clips.

The interviews also revealed that the attendees were predisposed to believing far-fetched ideas because they watched similar videos on 9/11 and the moon landings.

A spokeswoman for Youtube told Mail Online that they are working to provide more context to users about the news they watch on the site. 

‘We started showing notices below videos uploaded by news broadcasters that receive some level of government or public funding,’ they said.

They also announced plans to show additional information cues, including a text box or information panel linking to third-party sources around widely accepted events, like the moon landing and are ‘looking to expand these to more topics soon, including flat earth videos’.

We recently announced that we’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content or videos that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.’

‘This will be a gradual change and will initially only affect recommendations of a very small set of videos in the United States.

‘Over time, our systems will become more accurate and we’re going to roll this change out to more countries.’

‘Their algorithms make it easy to end up going down the rabbit hole, by presenting information to people who are going to be more susceptible to it.

Believing the Earth is flat in of itself is not necessarily harmful, but it comes packaged with a distrust in institutions and authority more generally.

We want people to be critical consumers of the information they are given, but there is a balance to be had.’

There’s a clear theme there about them not wanting people to change their mind about establishment-delivered facts after being exposed to YouTube content. They even point-blank say one of the problems with “flat earth” is that it makes people less likely to trust “institutions and authority more generally.”

Guess who currently controls institutions and has the authority in the West.