[ASK HN] how to filter out MSM media from YouTube feed?

perlpimp · 2022-03-26T07:24:19.000Z

How can I filter out all MSM media from YouTube video feed? Is there an app or an extension?

KarlTheCool 4 years ago |

As part of your recommendations blob? You can click the vertical ... on a video and click "Don't recommend channel"

The "Breaking News" sections that show up sometimes you could probably zap with uBlock Origin.

perlpimp 4 years ago | |

Does not work channels still show up cnn fox and so on

unraveller 4 years ago |

https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

hkc 4 years ago | |

Thank you for sharing this!

sydthrowaway 4 years ago |

Google has clearly made a deal with the devil. I never got thus much Murdoch content before.

Fatnino 4 years ago | |

If you click on even one they start sending you more and more.

ggurface 4 years ago |

What's MSM?

Teknoman117 4 years ago | |

"Mainstream Media"

laserdancepony 4 years ago |

Ok, just commit to your filter bubble.

aaaaaaaaata 4 years ago | |

What news sources do you pay subscriptions for?

olliej 4 years ago |

So you can go all in on conspiracies?

brobinson 4 years ago | |

There are non-"mainstream" sources which are highly factual and not editorialized. See AP and Reuters. Sadly, their reports are commonly resummarized in a biased/slanted way and used by the MSM. When you see a "Reuters reports that" or "According to a report by the AP", skip the MSM and go directly to the sources.

stonogo 4 years ago | | |

This is kind of a bizarre summary; I'd consider AP and Reuters to be the mainest possible stream of media.

brobinson 4 years ago | | |

How so? AP and Reuters don't have their own TV stations or printed services to my knowledge (though they do have online offerings).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media#The_%22Big_fi...

This is what people are talking about when they say "MSM", the deranged stuff you find on Fox News and CNN and so on.

frankzander 4 years ago | |

See it the other way around ... it's for the peace of mind not to get the every day world wide chaos pumped in your brain even on Youtube when you just want to be distracted by some nice dog or cat content.

aaaaaaaaata 4 years ago | |

You don't know the difference between conspiracies and conspiracy theories, and you think you can tell when you're being fed a false line?