The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm.

In recent years, YouTube's algorithm has proven increasingly corrupted by the relentless need to share negative, hate-filled news, aimed at spreading information, yes, but with a discreet focus on malice. Several studies have shown that the platform currently tends to push content that amplifies negativity to the front page, usually through hate speech, the use of harmful stereotypes, and a worrying level of misinformation.

Nowadays, users have less and less control over what they see on the platform, constantly bombarded with content meticulously curated to instill fear, anger, and distrust towards others. Several drug cartels and terrorist groups, in fact, use YouTube as a tool to promote their ideas and recruit other members.

Today's article explores the original nature of the platform in question, which was used in its early years (and still is today, albeit to a lesser extent) as a kind of public archive of its users' memories. Most of the videos on YouTube are not content published to entertain the general public, but rather simple private videos intended to make the original poster's friends smile.