Raised by the Algorithm: How Gender Stereotypes Found a New Playground in Teen Minds - New York Weekly

Social media has a strong influence on boys' role models and ideals. The model offered to them is increasingly tough, insensitive and strongly colored by masculinity, say the authors.

Raised by the Algorithm: How Gender Stereotypes Found a New Playground in Teen Minds - New York Weekly

By: Elena Mart Netflix’s Adolescence isn’t just a gripping drama; it’s a mirror held up to a generation quietly radicalized by the devices in their hands. The tale of 13-year-old Jamie Miller and the terrible fallout from his plunge into digital poisoning makes us face a reality that society has long attempted to overlook: the algorithm is indoctrinating teenage boys to hate.  There’s a moment in Netflix’s Adolescence that lingers long after the…