I have personal experience with working on recommendations at google and you are pretty off. It was based on increasing engagement, user satisfaction, quality and on reducing controversial news coverage of google(this meant removing the right-wing content which could lead to media outrage no more no less). In addition there were a lot of left leaning googlers who had a personal agenda to suppress all right-leaning content.
You are right that it was a room full of guys, but what you may not realize is a majority was Chinese or Indian.
You are right that it was a room full of guys, but what you may not realize is a majority was Chinese or Indian.