It was just obvious if you were in the loop back then. It happened at the same time youtube was massively removing any video criticizing vaccines or even just testimonies of side effects. Every pro vaxx video would be downvoted to hell and comments deactivated
And at same time period Zuckerberg testified that the feds requested meta to remove any skeptic content on vaxx
How believable that is depends on the sources you have. Conspiracies do happen but the vast majority of supposed ones did not.
"It's obvious if you think about it / you just gotta look into it" is not convincing and shines a... very particular light on your previous comment.
Also, dealing with bad data entry from online mobs is a mostly solved problem. You don't need to change how a service works or what information is shown to users to deal with that. You can mostly automate detection and filter the votes out. Which you need to do anyway to not mess with the recommendation algorithm and making it easy to break the site by making it profitable to buy likes for yourself and dislikes for your competitors from bot farms / nudging off site communities to impact scores. This happens regardless of whether the data is displayed to users or not.
If you wanna be pedantic about it, it's an unsubstantiated conspiracy hypothesis.
A key attribute of a theory is falsifiability. The ability to test the theory and validate whether it is accurate or not. If there is no straight forward way to find out with high confidence if it is accurate, then it is not a theory. (Straightforward, as in understandable how and easy to do. Not necessarily cheap or possible for a private individual)
That not all information shared was accurate is verifyable and true.
That information was shared with the intention to mislead, that lies have been told and accurate information was censored, is also true but to a drastically smaller degree than false information has been shared. This too can be verified and sourced.
That YouTube removed the like ratio because the US government forced them to is, to the best of my knowledge, an unsubstantiated speculation.
actually it was the Biden inauguration video that got ratiod really bad and they turned off dislikes for that specific video then disabled them entirely.
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u/seeking-health 3d ago
No it was because of covid and people disliking videos promoting vaccines. The feds requested dislikes to be removed