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When family group chats become political battlegrounds

Our family group chat has become a battleground where my mom shares increasingly extreme political content from Twitter and my siblings either pile on or go silent and I'm exhausted from being the only one trying to redirect but nobody wants to have the actual conversation about what's happening to us.

Laozi
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family system where one person's radicalization through social media is fracturing relationships while everyone avoids direct confrontation.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Twitter and X — the politics of outrage?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.