Surely, most people (regardless of nationality) realize that the "alt reality" is simply an narrative offered to cynically accomplish an objective. You can't instruct your proxies to avoid asking the question "did Russia invade Ukraine" without understanding Russia invaded Ukraine.
90% of /r/conservative's posts only allow flaired users (verified conservatives). There is an ongoing foodfight about verified users expressing neocon ideas like supporting Ukraine.
I don't have any recent information on pre-emptive bans, but years ago /r/conservative had a particular mod (I won't name) who did just that.
In fact, across the different datasets, over half of the people who watched partisan channels were either weak partisans, independents, or even identified with the opposite political party.
Viewers are more interested in the editorial or, pessimistically, the controversy?
Optimistically, it is both. While biased moderation has turned more than a few places sour, it's certainly not the greatest problem with these platforms. That said, having an algo whose biases are agnostic to individual users isn't a bad thing imho. In theory, it could free moderators/community leaders up to do more constructive things.
On the other hand, this whole thing could be a cash grab for AI training data money.
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