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Parents Warned Algorithms Exploit Their Baby Worries
Original: You’ll Do Anything for Your Baby. The Algorithm Knows How to Exploit That.
A new commentary argues that social media algorithms deliberately exploit parental anxiety, feeding new parents fear-driven content about baby safety and products because worried parents engage more. The piece says anxious caregivers will click, buy and doomscroll 'anything for your baby', turning love into a target for targeted advertising and misinformation. It calls on parents to recognize how platforms profit from their deepest fears.
Why now: Growing concern about how recommendation algorithms target anxious new parents with fear-based content and advertising
parentssocial media algorithmsThe Good Men Project
Evidence
- You’ll Do Anything for Your Baby. The Algorithm Knows How to Exploit That. · goodmenproject.com
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