Kids from stable homes are actually more vulnerable to social media manipulation because they trust adults and lack skepticism. The speaker explains how platforms use psychological tactics similar to Edward Bernays's propaganda techniques, exploiting the basic human need to belong. Even well-raised children can be emotionally programmed without parents recognizing it's happening.
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And that's how it works. And that's why kids, a lot of times they can't explain why. Why do you, I don't know. Why are you joining that crowd out there? I don't know. You know, why, why are you feeling the way? I don't know. And that's why. Because again, they're being programmed emotionally and identify them because we all want to belong to stuff. So. But what we need to understand as parents is that they were our children in many of these cases are being emotionally escorted and it's a, it's a form of psychological manipulation or what. Another, another one of these propagandists, matter of fact, who, Edward Bernays, who his mentor was, Walter Lippman, he said, or he called it manufactured consent. So here's something that might surprise you about all this. You might be thinking that the only kids that this influences are, you know, the high risk, at risk kids, kids that are, you know, don't come from, you know, solid homes, maybe broken homes, and that they're the targets, they're the vulnerable ones. But you would be wrong because even kids from stable homes, as a matter of fact, kids who are raised in healthy homes can be even more vulnerable. Why? Because they're raised in healthy homes and they tend to trust adults. They feel like people have good intentions, they want to belong and they don't have the skepticism.
