Being the Wrong Target.

I had two recommendations on YouTube tonight which left me more than a little incredulous. One was for an alt-right channel, the other for the online Daily Mail. Anyone who knows me even slightly – and, by inference, my viewing habits – would know that giving me such recommendations is a bit like sending Hilary Clinton a Christmas card featuring a picture of Donald Trump in a Santa suit. Quite the granddaddy of insults.

So what’s going on here? Can Google’s algorithms really be so far up the creek, or is there something more sinister at work? I confess to being a little concerned.