Social platforms prey on pregnant women's fears
Algorithms on Instagram and TikTok fill feeds with scary images.
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Algorithms on Instagram and TikTok fill feeds with scary images.
On TikTok and Instagram, pregnant women find themselves targeted with videos that prey on their worst fears as expectant mothers, from birth defects to child loss. For some, quitting social media is the only solution.
Some of the most horrific images from the war so far have come from a maternity hospital in Mariupol bombed by Russian troops in mid-March. The upheaval spurs a troubling question: Could the stress and condition of war affect a fetus?
To propose that madness may have a function is not to deny its toll, but to help us understand what problem it is meant to solve.