sexism homophobia and political extremism score hits on you tube even though the site has plenty of high quality content it's the extreme videos that attract audiences and to big profits for the channel owners and for the site itself why does it make money on you tube and what does that mean for the user i would topic today on shift. you tube recommendation algorithms favor polarizing content and that tends to recognize uses conservatives for instance increasing the steer toward right wing extremist channels as a brazilian study has shown 79000000 comments were analyzed for it it seems about time that you tube takes action so as you will just keep see all of the website has announced changes to the community guidelines you tube is promising to remove that