This is so true. I first noticed it on Facebook when it recommended I follow the BNP page, Britain First etc Eventually I realised that the algorithm knew I was a middle aged, British football fan but hadn't registered that I was Black so was trying to direct me towards the Far Right.
Yes: it used to be “ah I see you read the Daily Mail” and now it is “ah, I see you have apparently trained your YouTube algorithm to feed you… white supremacist incel propaganda from Florida?”

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