Posted on 03/31/2021 7:22:19 PM PDT by dynachrome
The site – 81m.org – tracks the “likes” and “dislikes” on videos published by the official White House YouTube account, and from the data, extrapolates an “approval rate.” In many cases, the approval rating is in the single digits, even as low as 2.72 percent for the video “President Biden Participates in a Virtual Event with the House Democratic Caucus.”
The site also reveals how the YouTube account is manipulating dislikes:
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...
Methodology
We get data about the videos we track using the YouTube API.
We check for new videos every 10 minutes.
We check like counts, dislike counts, and view counts on a schedule that varies by video age, as described by the table below.
To calculate the real dislikes on a video, we tabulate only increases to the dislikes, and ignore decreases. On normal YouTube videos (e.g., on PewDiePie’s videos), the official YouTube stats and our real stats completely agree. On many White House videos, there is a huge discrepancy between official dislikes and our calculated real dislikes.
“Open-source data: Our data is freely available for download at the bottom of every page in three convenient formats. You can download it and use it in your own reports, charts, and graphics. If you want to validate our data, you can simply monitor the likes and dislikes we report, live, to the video’s actual YouTube page. You could also validate our data by using the YouTube API. If there are any data scientists out there, please contact us if you would like us to link to your project that evaluates the accuracy of our data.”
President Trump: remove his videos.
President Biden: remove the dislike button from his videos.
I know that on some of the videos for the alphabet media, they reset the likes and dislikes to zero if too many negatives start showing up.
Amazon does the same thing with book reviews....too many negatives, they delete them.
I have made a point of disliking every video the WH has put up on Youtube and check it once a day to keep up.
Occasionally Youtube is late to turn off comments and hilarity ensues until they do.
Mark Dice, who has now been banned from Facebook FWIW, mentioned today that the WH is apparently too stupid to turn off the likes dislikes function since it is under control of the channel user.
Try the “damning with faint praise” approach. Hit the “like” button, then post an appropriately negative comment. Make “likes” worthless. Strongly condemn WH actions but put some comment concerning the president’s superb fashion tastes in shoelaces or some such.
But isn’t he the most popular president ever????
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