{"id":37420,"date":"2021-07-07T11:03:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37420"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T01:04:04","slug":"that-seems-regrettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37420","title":{"rendered":"THAT SEEMS REGRETTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube users have reported potentially objectionable content in thousands of videos recommended to them using the platform&#8217;s algorithm, according to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The findings,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wsgzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdllgzsw_ugqhnnwqwshfqnfcfhyq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wsgzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdllgzsw_ugqhnnwqwshfqnfcfhyq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625782669819000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0VdFrFJ94C9Ge1sGxbRpOY_14vA\">released Wednesday<\/a>, revealed many instances of YouTube recommending videos that users had marked as &#8220;regrettable&#8221; \u2014 a broad category including misinformation, violence and hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-month-long investigation used crowdsourced data gathered by the foundation using an extension for its Firefox web browser as well as a browser extension created for Chrome users to report potentially problematic content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube users have reported potentially objectionable&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37421,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions\/37421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}