I literally never get such content and I use YouTube constantly. I'm not sure how much I'd blame youtube for showing similar content to whatever people are already watching.
But yeah I'd second that. My feed is mostly video games, music & crafting which fits my interests pretty well. I don't get any political or violent content suggested at all.
I also wonder how much this gets influenced by tracking data gathered outside of YouTube.
I think not at all given what I see in incognito/secondary google account and that I dont see any of my interests which I havent watched much about on youtube recommended - e.g. no programming stuff and I'm sure there's a ton of tracking data outside of youtube suggesting I'm interested in that.
As bad as the news gets, it isn't going to tell you Bill Gates is putting mind-control chips into COVID vaccines, or that the Presidential election was stolen by a conspiracy of Chinese communists and Democratic party pedophile cultists, or that Jewish space lasers are responsible for forest fires. It may report on those beliefs and their effects elsewhere, but unlike the internet, won't assert them as fact, or let you form a comfortable bubble of alternate reality around yourself where those beliefs are only ever reinforced, but never questioned.