this is a :a-guy: post
So my grandma couldn't live alone anymore and she moved into my parents house about a year ago. Her new bedroom doesn't have cable. Her media diet used to be like 90% TV and 10% internet. Now it's reversed.
She's 90 years old and just a conventional methodist.
What probably happened is she searched youtube for gospel music to do crosswords by. 100,000 iterations of the algorithm later she believes in ancient aliens, crises actors, millenarianism, all of it.
Same thing probably happened in rural communities who got the full internet all at once. They didn't get it by degrees, dial-up alta vista, to learn years of bullshit filtering heuristics.
on a small personal scale I wonder how hard it would be to set up "parental control" for shit like this. idk if it would be possible to do without outright blocking things like facebook. Either that or try to pre-seed their accounts with a bunch of lefty shit to confuse The Algorithm
yeah we talked about like clearing her history, resetting her algorithm, and nudging it in a direction with some wholesome search terms.
and she's 90 years old so she less than half way understands what the new world order theory is but latches on to key words that she's heard before like "Revelations".
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