Crash Course: Shutting down the right-wing rabbit hole is possible: First, follow the money

Schools and parents are suing social media giants over their "addictive" algorithms. Can that force a reckoning? [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmgTrAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYnUwd3JweWZlei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWQ1eXJsdnNlcDNXA3NwY0IKZJzCtZ5kmSLTylIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmgTrAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdDRxa2xkang5MS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWQ1eXJsdnNlcDMmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZJzCtZ5kmSLTylIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Shutting down the right-wing rabbit hole is possible: First, follow the money When Ann married her husband more than 20 years ago, he was someone “who couldn’t care less about politics at all.” But in the years since Donald Trump was elected president, Ann’s husband drifted first into being a right-wing Republican and then into embracing all kinds of conspiracy theories. He recently told their children that the company behind Monster Energy drinks was hiding Satanist symbols on the can. Ann isn’t her real name — and her story, unfortunately, isn’t unusual. Millions of American families have endured watching a loved one go down the infamous right-wing “rabbit hole” of online disinformation, and it can be almost impossible to bring them back. [As Amanda Marcotte reports in an exclusive investigation](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmgTrAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNDhpOXM4NXNicy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWQ1eXJsdnNlcDMmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZJzCtZ5kmSLTylIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), “preventing people from falling into the disinformation abyss in the first place is obviously crucial” to stopping this kind of online radicalization, and “one of the most promising avenues for prevention has emerged from a surprising place: Parents and schools who have made it a mission to battle social media addiction.” These activists, advocates and crusading attorneys are “using the same tools that proved so effective at curtailing a different and even deadlier public health menace: cigarette smoking.” But instead of going after Big Tobacco, they’re going after Big Tech: Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) Liz Cheney is right: We're electing idiots Apparently the world has gone crazy. Blame it on that idiot [Donald Trump](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmgTrAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYmc3cmxoaXhndS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWQ1eXJsdnNlcDMmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZJzCtZ5kmSLTylIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) if you want, but in fact our world's bad craziness predates that nattering nabob of narcissism. When your first memories of life include John F. Kennedy's assassination and a neighbor who built a bomb shelter under his vegetable garden, craziness is the rule. Mature, rational thinking? I've rarely seen it. Many have difficulty dealing with the craziness. Few handle it as well as National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. This week in the White House briefing room, Kirby took an idiotic question from a reporter who asked what label we should apply to the weekend melodrama in Russia. His answer has already turned into a meme. "We're not slapping a bumper sticker on it, Ed," Kirby replied. It takes a special brand of crazy to cut through the clutter of idiocy you see on a daily basis, especially since Trump usually has crazy on sale at half price – and if you buy now you'll get a T-shirt. After all, as he told a Fox News Digital interviewer this week, he doesn't do things wrong. He does them right. 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"The Bear" hides crusts of meaning and trauma in an episode about the Feast of the Seven Fishes Splattered marinara covers everything — the screeching kitchen timers, walls and appliances. It dots the ceiling, as if an artery were opened by force, creating a crime scene of heat and havoc. When Carmy asks why she's made a gigantic stock pot of red gravy on top of juggling the sea's bounty Donna hisses at him, "Because nobody eats this s**t!" Donna is angry, chain-smoking and getting drunker by the moment. Nothing can placate her. 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