"Our main findings indicate a "funnelling effect": users.. ..are steered by the recommendation system towards a select group of video channels,
narrowing the range of views they are exposed to.

Additionally, we found a significant overrepresentation of right-wing voices in video recommendations. When viewing political videos.. ..19.3% of the first recommendations were for videos featuring politicians from the Finns Party."

#youtube #rightwing #persut

https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/news/youtubes-algorithm-promoted-right-wing-content-in-the-2024-finnish-elections/

YouTube’s algorithm promoted right-wing content in the 2024 Finnish elections

Amid this week's flurry of talks on AI regulation in Strasbourg, a new study found YouTube to have boosted the

^{Eliza Gkritsi (EURACTIV)}

So uhh...

Finnish Interior Minister, Mari Rantanen (PS), is suggesting we'd have "welfare-detectives"

Her reasoning?

The welfare system's own statistics say there's very little fraud/misallocation among those receiving benefits, so the system itself "has to be faulty."

In essence, she wants the state to send authorities to spy on the poor (kinda like how insurance companies do) just for the sake of them being poor.

https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000010218886.html

#Finland #finpol #persut #kokoomus

Sisäministeri Rantanen ehdottaa ”Kela-etsiviä” tukien väärin­käyttäjien paljastamiseksi

Sisäministeri Mari Rantanen ihmetteli Iltalehden haastattelussa, miten väärin­käytöksiä selvitetään ainoastaan katsomalla tulorekisteriin: ”Se ei ehkä ole koko totuus.”

^{Tiia Etelämäki HS (Helsingin Sanomat)}