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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was just at my father in laws house and he has roku, it already does that. He went from voting for Harris to last week saying "Trump is the smartest president we've ever had".

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sounds like dementia.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Fox news is specifically designed to target the elderly as their critical thinking skills are fading, targeting their most triggerable fears. Fox Brain is a known phenomena, one which can usually be reversed if easy access to Fox News is removed, as seen in this documentary.

I myself was able to stop my mother from going down that path with the help of a browser add-on that let me block right-wing rage bait news from showing up in her YouTube feed, which had an almost immediate and lasting effect.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Link to the addon instead of a preview of a comment with the link https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 23 hours ago

Ah, I didn't realize the Voyager app worked that way when using it to share links, which is really weird and awkward. I edited my comment to a direct lemmy link now that I'm on a PC. Thanks for the heads up.

And for others reading, I linked to my older comment since I briefly explained how I used blocktube to be effective, but I'll add it here as well:

At some point she had an appointment to go somewhere and I happened to have an opportunity to access her computer for an extended amount of time.

What I did was subscribe her youtube account to a bunch of left-wing news sources, and more critically, I installed the browser addon BlockTube, which allows you to create a blacklist that seamlessly prevents videos or channels matching any keywords you choose from displaying on youtube. I added words like Trump, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Fox News, Sean Hannity, etc.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, that doesn't sound like Roku's fault.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dementia doesn't automagically make one rabid for Trump.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There seems to be a pretty strong correlation though

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Same with the level of propaganda.

[–] protist@retrofed.com 2 points 1 day ago

No, but it does often lead to sudden, late-life personality changes