Credible-looking (or moderate-posing) content ties to popular culture or current events, then introduces particular framings or phrasings where the only search results are conspiracy theories and extremist content. From there, the kids go down the rabbit hole.
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Tapping into every teenage kid’s suspicion of authority or desire for dramatic narratives is easy. “Here’s a secret story they don’t want you to know, which will make you feel powerful but also bring you into a community of like-minded people” is an almost irresistible drug.
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So a kid goes looking for info on their favorite comic book movie or singer, sees someone saying “that thing is bad, for this reason”, not realizing it’s thinly-veiled racism/sexism. The every time the hateful rhetoric gets more overt, it’s couched as being “ironic” or a joke.
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(You can see the anti-patterns play out in 2 ways in the responses to this thread. One, “I bought into conspiracies this way, so stop shutting them down!” Two, “That’s only a worry for Bad Kids or Bad Parents, not me! Just turn it off!” Both are dangerous reactions to extremism.)
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My brother was part of the early wave of this (he's 28 now) and it's frustrating and heartbreaking and takes so much time and energy to try to protect him and most importantly others.
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I’m so sorry.
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I’m honestly terrified of this and try to stay very close to what my son is watching (he’s about your son’s age, IIRC), keeping half an ear out for what he’s watching and talking to him about what kinds of things he might see that are bad for him, or just flat out lies.
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Same. I see weird & troubling stuff getting recommended on the fringes of his attention already. I’m fortunate to be fairly fluent in it, though.
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the wild part to me is how often these things get linked to ip that is ostensibly the opposite of this stuff. i would have thought that it's obvious the genocidal space nazis in star wars are the bad guys but he we are
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