Stranded N.

YouTube used to be a general-interest video site for all ages. During the pandemic, something drastically happened. The algorithm and search engine seemed to completely break--not just for me but for a lot of people. No matter what you search, you keep getting served the same bogus content from disinfo agents, fake news channels and everything else in between, including racist and antisemitic content.

For example, do a search for Disney. Just "Disney", nothing else. A video from the official Disney corporation will turn up, immediately followed by Alt Right channels like Ryan Rinkel Outpost, The Quartering and others. You'd think family-friendly travel shows and guides would be the first thing you'd see but YouTube promotes these Alt Right channel and hardly promotes the other ones. In some cases, YouTube will even juxtapose official Disney content with these Alt Right crackpots.

YouTube has also been promoting a lot of scamfluencers. Scamfluencers are people pretending to just be vloggers/ social media influencers but are getting slipped money under the table by power brokers, think tanks and foreign agents to spread propaganda. When they have enough viewers, they then start spewing fake news and propaganda from their handlers. One of them is a fraud called Cash Jordan, who keeps taking pictures of graffiti and garbage dumps, putting a grungy filter on them and posting clickbait about NYC dying, going under, falling apart, etc. He will even take old photographs and post them as if they were just happening.

Another scamfluencer is The World According to Briggs. His gimmick is alerting everyone to all the "whitest states", "blackest states", most "Jewish states", etc., I suppose, to help lend enemies of state and domestic terrorists a helping hand in knowing which places to hit when they want to commit an act of violence.

A third scamfluencer is The Real Economy. Pretended to be a regular shopper documenting post-pandemic price surges, then took a hard turn into QAnonville/Election was Riggedsville as soon as he had enough subscribers.

Look at the rest of the gallery to see the oh, so "wholesome" videos that YouTube has been promoting, because everything that I said doesn't even touch the surface--"autism gurus" teaching American kids how to learn that they're autistic, a Holocaust survivor who would've been a fetus when it happened pushing anti-vaxx, an Iranian asset on Sky News attacking American leaders and public figures. It is to laugh!

All the major Big Tech sites don't want to pay real news media outlets a license for aggregating news, so what they started doing was sourcing content farms. Content farms are how Far Right, Far Left, fringe groups and foreign agents have been spreading disinformation in the United States. The way that it works is that someone puts up a website for dirt cheap and uses AI to whip up garbage articles filled with fake news and clickbait, or hires college kids or Third Worlders off of Fiverr, Amazon Turk or some other place to crank out B.S. Clickbait like, "Why GenZs are Terrible," "Why Boomers Destroyed the Economy," "How the Democrats are Ruining America," or "How Republicans are Bringing Back Slavery."

Many of these content farms play both sides against the middle. I posted a screenshot showing how one content farm accidentally released two articles with the exact same title on the same day, where one was meant to attack Baby Boomers and the other Millennials. The content farm is called, "From Frugal to Free," and on March 25, it published one article titled, "22 Reasons Millennials are Ruining the Economy," and another one on the same day titled, "20 Reasons Why Boomers Ruined the Economy."

Some of the content farms in question:

The Washington Examiner (run by college kids)
Knewz
Wealthy Boomers
Pulse of Pride
Stapler Confessions
Flannels or FlipFlops
Cryptopolitan
MovieWeb
ThyBlackMan
Engineer Finances

The list goes on and on...all fly by night content farms sourced as news.

Bing is not a victim of these content farms. It's in on this scam. It allows members of the content farm to report any comment correcting the information as violating the TOS. Members of these farms also pretend to be Americans reacting to the article. So, for example, in a fake news article about "Florida removing millions off of Medicaid," teams of them will post stuff like, "Those Republican scum" (pretending to be Democrats) or vice versa, as in, "Good for Florida for getting rid of people sponging off the system."

Remember why Bing is doing this. It's doing this so it can keep up the appearance of having a news section while refusing to pay real news media outlets. Sites like Bing, Facebook, Google and others need to be criminally investigated because they have allowed these fake news content farm to flourish in the months leading up to the presidential election.

Ars Technica has a reputation of being an unbiased news site. This is and isn't true. Generally speaking, when it reports on strictly technical or business news in the tech world (like a recent press release from a company or the hiring of a new CEO), it takes a "just the facts, ma'am," approach.

The heavy bias starts to show itself when it reports on political news or developments in terms of regulating Big Tech abuses, especially in terms of hate speech and adult content. Because Ars Technica is hardcore Techno-Libertarian and is a mouthpiece for the goons of Silicon Valley, it has a very sophisticated algorithm in the comments to shut out anyone supporting regulation of Big Tech. For example, under an article about, say, legislators considering adding age-verification to protect minors from seeing certain sites, Ars Technica's clique of readers, admins and moderators will spam the comment with enough downvotes to collapse it from view.

Just to show you how unbiased and sick this site is, when posters try to ask the community on the forums as to why a post was collapsed, they not only get verbally attacked, they get told in condescending fashion that the only reason why they were downvoted is that they said something "wrong." In the screenshot posted, you can see one forum poster sounding like a character out of Orwell's 1984, saying, "I've got comments of mine downvoted to oblivion. You know what I did? Sucked it up and accepted what I said was not acceptable - learned from what I said and continued to comment." Others similarly made comments along the lines of getting brigaded as being a "learning experience," as in, "You were shamed and humiliated for having the wrong opinion; learn how to think like everyone else so it won't happen again."

That is not the worst part. Ars Technica's commenting system is designed to screen out "wrongthinkers." If you're a new member who posts "wrongthink" from the gate, Ars Technica's staff and readers will downvote your post to such an extent that you get forced into a quandary where you lose your posting privileges until you can get enough upvotes. It's okay, though. You can just have fun watching the shady Ars Technica staff, their friends and goons dogpile in your absence as you sit back helplessly, unable to respond.

In the last screenshot, you can see the types of comments that are wrongthink and which Ars Technica tries to memory hole by mass downvoting. Someone had the temerity to suggest that any type of CP should be banned. I guess that's what the arrogant SOB in the last screenshot (aka "Tridus") meant by "Frankly, our society today goes far too hard in the direction of coddling every uninformed opinion and treating it as if its valid." It's a "misinformed opinion" to support legislation of sexual images involving minors.

By the way, don't hold Ars Technica blameless for any of this. I've been on the web a long time. A sneaky thing that so many of these tech sites do is put on a "front" of unbiased reporting, only to attack people they disagree with under cover of anonymity. "Unbiased" news sites don't allow the kind of brigading of posters on one side, or enabling of a sophisticated algorithm that both collapses posts and immediately flags new accounts guilty of wrongthink. These people are the staff members themselves, contributors or friends of the site. They're not "the public." Not by a longshot.

A lot has been made about so-called "troll farming" attacking Americans. But troll farms are not the only way that enemies of state and fringe groups have been sowing dissension in American. Foreign nationals and fringe groups have been opening and managing so-called "American forums" or US-centric sites for years to spread propaganda and spy on the thoughts of American citizens. For example, I remember not too long ago when a white nationalist site targeting Americans was shut down, because it was really based in Romania.

A lot of "Americancentric" sites are this, just fronts to attract decent American citizens to them and spread propaganda and agitprop to gaslight and confuse. City-Data is one of these sites. Upon research, I read through the grapevine that it's really owned by Eastern Europeans. I don't know how accurate this is, but having also been banned for calling out disinformation, this certainly seems to be the case. I was banned because, as a native New Yorker, I became suspicious of the "regulars" who didn't seem to have any familiarity with NYC culture or history. After several months there, one of the outed themselves as a disinfo troll. They posted a lie that housing rates had soared because Chinese people were doing anything they could to avoid blacks. As soon as I called this comment out, a mod edited my post then gave me a "warning." When I complained, I was banned, with the reason that I was a "troll." I had been a faithful poster there, giving out historical and cultural information about NYC, with photos and everything, because I am actually a New Yorker. The troll who seemed nothing but post racist dog whistles all day was allowed to remain.

If you, as an American, have evidence that this site is really Disinfo, contact the Department of Justice with your story, as well as screenshots. Get this site investigated. Don't just post at Sitejabber; contact your representatives.

Quora bills itself as an information site in which experts with credentials help people with questions. Quora is anything but. It's a content farm, a site that baits people into writing content for it in order to game Google and Bing into always putting it at the top of every search query. In the beginning, the content was harmless but true to a content farm, it started allowing tons of hateful, disgusting and illegal content by trolls, bots and disinfo agents for clicks, including gore images and sick questions normalizing incest and pedophilia.

It also started harboring hate groups and criminals under "spaces", which are sort of like social media groups. One group that is pushed into your feed is "It's Okay to Be White," a white supremacist group.

Quora is also farming content for a different reason. It's using people's answers to train its A.I. Bot. Whenever you click onto a question, a chatbot will answer it right away, using a mixture of what everyone had posted before. Some of the answers are also clearly AI-generated. There's no question that within a year or two, Quora will purge the site of answers left behind by people and just have the chatbot left.

Lastly, Quora is running some sort of fake monetization scam. It's been inviting people to monetize their content for years. However, to this day, nobody has earned any money on any content they posted, even those who've earned tens of thousands of views and upvotes and have thousands of responses and comments. If there's a monetization program, where is the money? I wouldn't be surprised if in all the time people were baited into posting on Quora, their data wasn't harvested. The entire site reeks. Avoid.