2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow did the trumpers hack YouTube? Go search Hillary, all you'll see is "illness".
This post by DUer DaveJ notes that YouTube appears to have been compromised for trump.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512378048#post25
"I know that there's probably not much you can do about this. But I'm finding it frustrating that when I go to YouTube and type "Trump" in the search box, I get lots of results that make him look sane, which I know he's not, and when I type "Hillary" I got lots of results that make her look like the devil, when I know she's actually a fine person. So, it seems like YouTube has been compromised by lots of Fox News videos (maybe by their new web team). Again, it's probably unlikely that anyone reading this can do anything about it. It was just so frustrating, and it concerns me greatly. Maybe it's temporary, and the Hillary team is on it. Or maybe it's just my account. Anyway, I had to mention it. I hope they get this worked out. I'm sure the Hillary team has people on it. Alright. Thank you. "
I see only pro trump and anti Hillary videos now and that does not reflect my history.
I hope DUers in this thread go to YouTube and see for themselves, and that someone can get this to the campaign asap to fight back.
We'll be hearing more exhortations to go look for videos because they know the results are hacked. I hope we can hack it back to a point where when I type in Hillary, I don't get "illness". To try and fight back I entered Hillary educated, experienced, fair, wise, smart, competent and trump arrogant, idiot, foolish racist, hateful, unprepared, inexperienced, taxes, bigot. One drop in the bucket.
Anybody here who can help?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)John Oliver Asks Donald Trump To "DROP OUT" Last Week Tonight ...
Video for donald trump▶ 10:27
16 hours ago - Uploaded by NextWeekTomorrow
on "Last Week Tonight", John Oliver asks the "racist voodoo doll made of discarded cat hair" Donald Trump To ...
John Oliver - Message to Donald Trump - YouTube
Video for donald trump▶ 4:50
8 hours ago - Uploaded by consumer
No one but Kim Jong and Donald Trump is stupid enough to use nuclear weapons in this day and ... Look, I'm ...
I added the 24 hour limit to my search.
mahina
(17,625 posts)Hacked to show only negative videos for Hillary and positive for the Cheeto Benito.
Maybe more people will google than go to YouTube directly. Here's hoping, and also hoping that the Hillary campaign can get this problem resolved.
mythology
(9,527 posts)You're going along with a completely unfounded conspiracy put forth by people who don't understand the broad strokes of the YouTube algorithm. It's really not that hard to grasp.
mahina
(17,625 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)We lost that fight long ago.
mahina
(17,625 posts)Illness.
The lies from these people, when seen together, are astounding.
We disregard the effect of biased information to our (and the world's) peril.
librarylu
(503 posts)In fact, my recommended list is almost all videos critical of Trump.
On a general YouTube search for "Hillary" her sweeping the electorals came up second.
I was getting Trump ads on YouTube and here (also NRA and tacky T-shirts) and nothing I did though Google would stop them. I finally installed Adblock and now only watch ballet and John Oliver on YouTube after a couple of days of reading comments on Trump unloading Play Doh (he's such a hero while Hillary napped and Obama played golf).
Peace at last.
mahina
(17,625 posts)You're the first person I've heard from who isn't getting hacked results.
A bright spot! Hoping it's turned around. Mahalo.
librarylu
(503 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)When I search "Hillary Clinton" in Youtube, I get a mixture of videos, some positive, but also a lot of them are about her health and just plain nasty. Probably a 50/50 mixture.
When I search "Donald Trump" in Youtube, they're all positive; a lot of them are about him wanting to help African-Americans.
There's definitely bias from what I'm seeing.
mahina
(17,625 posts)For Hillary, in the past I'd see speeches and positive material, for trump, his assholic racist mean attack stuff.
No longer.
Still hoping it was a coordinated buy with hackers and a one off that the web is recovering from now. I appreciate your looking.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)that they are all popping up suddenly suggests that YouTube has a problem with Trump morons hacking the site. I have never even searched for Hillary-related videos on YouTube so the fact that I get a bunch of videos about Hillary's "illness" with low numbers of viewers (like maybe 1,345 viewers each -- not a viral video with millions of viewers) is definitely weird.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)I've never searched for Hillary on youtube either; it's bizarre those would come up without a helping hand.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Literally zero such videos on the first page of hits.
mahina
(17,625 posts)That's hopeful too.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Also one from TMZ about her and Paul McCartney.
The others include everything from videos about the emails to her speech at the convention.
mahina
(17,625 posts)Mahalo!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Does that mean a lot of people are searching for those terms?
mahina
(17,625 posts)This is new. They are selling the lie about her health being not good,
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I confess to not really understanding how this sort of thing works, but I do know there are a ton of crackpots who post garbage on Youtube.
mahina
(17,625 posts)As anything. And for it to come up the day that Giulani tells anyone listening to go online and look for the videos. We need a rapid response that this is complete bullshit. I hope we can fight this breotbart tactic and show them as the lying cheaters they are.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)mahina
(17,625 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)and yet very few people are actually WATCHING the videos so it looks like paid bots to me. How pathetic.
mahina
(17,625 posts)The context just changed and I'd love to figure out how to judo this thing to make it work for us but I don't see how.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)The Trump campaign paid well over $8 million for digital consulting/online advertising for the month of August.
A connection there?
Source doc. http://docquery.fec.gov/pres//2016/M8/C00580100/B_PURPOSE_C00580100.html
mahina
(17,625 posts)I bet it's offshore too.
With everybody's forbearance, I'm going to write a post asking DUers to counter the effort by typing "Hillary" and positive attributes in the YouTube search bars.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)But we'd still be up against a paid digital army...don't know if we can make enough of an impact.
But I'm game ~
mahina
(17,625 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)You chip away at it. You keep at it until she's in and he's finished.
mahina
(17,625 posts)If anyone deserved a permanent home in the dustbin of oblivion, national amnesia, it's him.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday continued to insist that Hillary Clinton's physical and mental health is failing but again offered no evidence beyond unsubstantiated or debunked theories circulating on the Internet.
Over the weekend, Giuliani, who is a close adviser to GOP nominee Donald Trump, urged people to look for videos on the Internet that support such theories. "Go online and put down 'Hillary Clinton illness,' take a look at the videos for yourself," Giuliani urged on "Fox News Sunday."
blue neen
(12,319 posts)It's been too obvious a change to be coincidental.
relayerbob
(6,537 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Apparently, Hillary is actually all these things:
A lizard alien
A shape shifter
Possessed by demons and
A clone