And it influences the algorithm I think

We assume as much, but we really don’t have evidence of that.

Eons ago, yes. It initially bothered me when they replaced it with thumbs up/down since I couldn’t rank things with nuance.

They stopped showing the number of thumbs down. They did not take away the thumbs down button.

While true, what’s the difference? Do we know that they use thumbs down in anything anymore?

Yeah he’s the kind of wealth that helps you realize why people ever supported the wealthy. They used to actually have an understanding that keeping their wealth meant keeping employees, customers, and people at large happy and safe – and they’d be willing to put in the effort (or rather, money) to ensure it.