YouTube Videos Brainwashed My Father. Can I Reprogram His Feed?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/magazine/youtube-radicalization.html
YouTube Videos Brainwashed My Father. Can I Reprogram His Feed?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on dealing with a parent radicalized by a recommendation engine and whether to cut off a friend who has joined a cult.
Credit.Tomi Un
April 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
For nearly his entire life, my 80-something-year-old father has been a quiet, gentle and deeply religious man who went to Mass and said the rosary daily. Although his political views have always been conservative, he has also always believed in kindness and fairness. Since the start of the pandemic, his social interactions have become severely reduced, limited to daily calls from me (I live across the country), weekly visits from my brother and the occasional shopping trips and church attendance. As our mother passed away before the pandemic, his one loyal companion ....