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FOX News Benefits From YouTube’s New Algorithm

YouTube’s new data seemed to be working leading up to the 2020 Presidential Election as it recommended far fewer fringe channels alongside news videos.

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YouTube has become synonymous with false information, and to combat the issue, the media outlet went to work on changing their algorithm. For those who aren’t aware, YouTube’s algorithm decides which videos YouTube recommended that users watch next.

As a result of their algorithm, those recommendations tended to steer viewers toward videos that were hyperpartisan, divisive, misleading, or downright false. After the 2016 Presidential Election, YouTube went to work correcting this issue.

Four years later, YouTube’s new data seemed to be working leading up to the 2020 Presidential Election as it recommended far fewer fringe channels alongside news videos.

However, even with the media outlet recomending far few videos that could help spread misleading and false information it cause for amplification of Fox News. The New York Times reports that YouTube’s new algorithm recommended Fox News channel consistently, sometimes by a wide margin.

“The data also showed that the Fox News clips most frequently recommended by YouTube were from its pro-Trump prime-time shows that often attack Democrats and sometimes spread unreliable information about voter fraud and the coronavirus,” The Times reported.

A Fox News spokesperson stated that the network has worked hard on increasing their presence on YouTube. Furthermore, the spokeperson said that Fox News created a team focusing on posting videos that perform well with views and on the media outlets search engine. Going by how the numbers, it seems that the Fox News YouTube team has done their job to make the network a significant new source for viewers on the website.

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Jesse Watters: Meet The Press Used to Cover What Are Now Considered Conspiracy Theories

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While announcing his departure from Meet The Press this weekend, moderator Chuck Todd said he would rather “leave a little bit too soon than stay a tad bit too long.” That statement drew a strong reaction from Fox News host Jesse Watters.

During Monday’s edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, the Fox News host openly mocked Todd’s comments, laughing out loud in the process.

“Chuck Todd thinks he’s leaving too soon!” Watters joked. “Oh man, imagine if Chuck Todd’s guests came on this show, it would change the course of the country. ‘Hey, senator, why do you want men changing in your daughters’ locker rooms?’ ‘Mr. Secretary, do you drive an electric car?’ ‘Mr. President, why do you keep calling everybody racist?’”

Watters then said Todd turned the venerable NBC News program into a “safe space for the most powerful people in America”. He then pointed out questions that former moderator Tim Russert asked to both presidential candidates in 2004. He argued Todd would never hit “both sides” the way Russert did.

Meet the Press used to cover what Chuck Todd today would call a conspiracy theory,” Watters continued. “Do you think Chuck would ask Kerry a secret society question? Chuck Todd doesn’t even know Hunter’s laptop is real.”

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Joe Scarborough: ‘CNN is a Really Hard Place to Run’

“(Jeff) Zucker is the best of ’em, and I think in time, I think Chris (Licht) will be proven to be the best of ’em, too.”

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Embattled CNN CEO Chris Licht is facing his strongest pushback at the network after an exposé from The Atlantic detailed “the meltdown” at CNN. However, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is defending his former colleague Monday.

During Morning Joe, which Licht was once the executive producer of, the former congressman said much of the reporting surrounding Licht’s tenure has been inaccurate.

“I mean, listen, I love Jeff Zucker. He’s a friend of ours,” Scarborough said. “He saved my job at NBC more than one or two times, so I’m not mocking Jeff, but this idea that (CNN) was a ratings juggernaut when it just wasn’t before Chris walked through the door? That’s not Jeff’s fault, that’s just bad reporting. It wasn’t. It was in third place.

“You look at when Phil Griffin left, MSNBC was first, Fox was second, and CNN was third. That’s how it was a lot in those final years. Again, not a knock on Jeff at all. CNN is a really hard place to run for the best of ’em. Zucker is the best of ’em, and I think in time, I think Chris will be proven to be the best of ’em, too.”

Scarborough also read a Twitter thread of Licht’s Monday comments to staffers where he took accountability for the damaging remarks he made about CNN before his tenure to The Atlantic.

“That’s exactly what you’d want from somebody that made a mistake,” Scarborough said. “They step forward, they admit the mistake, and say ‘I’m very sorry’. Head down. ‘Let’s get to work’.”

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Chris Licht Tells CNN Staffers ‘I Should Not Be in the News Unless It’s Taking Arrows For You’

The CNN CEO reportedly told employees he would “fight like hell” to win their trust back after making disparaging statements about their work before his tenure began.

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CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht addressed an exposé from The Atlantic that dropped late last week to staffers in a Monday morning meeting.

The profile, authored by Tim Alberta, details the “meltdown” at the network. Alberta spent nearly a year behind the scenes with Licht, who trashed the previous regime’s strategy of covering the 24-hour news cycle and the stances network talents took against former President Donald Trump.

Reaction to the story has been varied, but most observers commented that the piece made Licht look inept and many questioned his future leading the network after it was published.

While speaking to staffers during the Monday morning editorial call, Licht said he spent time thinking about the profile.

“CNN is not about me,” Licht said, according to former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter. “I should not be in the news unless it’s taking arrows for you. Your work is what should be written about.”

The CNN CEO reportedly told employees he would “fight like hell” to win their trust back after making disparaging statements about their work before his tenure began.

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