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Parenting Content: How Algorithms Exploit New Parents' Anxieties
Original: You’ll Do Anything for Your Baby. The Algorithm Knows How to Exploit That.
A commentary piece argues that social media algorithms deliberately exploit parents' deep concern for their babies, feeding them anxiety-inducing or manipulative content to maximise engagement. The article examines how recommendation systems learn that fear-driven parenting material keeps new parents scrolling, prompting discussion about platform responsibility and the wellbeing of families caught in attention-driven feeds.
Why now: Ongoing public concern about how social media algorithms target vulnerable groups, including new parents.
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- You’ll Do Anything for Your Baby. The Algorithm Knows How to Exploit That. · goodmenproject.com
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