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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)
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[–] 233 points 4 months ago (14 children)

This is the same Fox that owns Fox News. So now Roku's advertising push can include a side of misinformation.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (10 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".

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  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Sounds like dementia.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Dementia doesn't automagically make one rabid for Trump.

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