Similar context, Facebook. Every couple weeks a story about small children dying in horrible circumstances "pops up". It's usually a crime story, a news report, or an article about history (most recently, about intentional murder of children during WWII). It's always so hard-hitting emotionally that even her re-telling me what it was about is enough to break my emotional balance. Every time a story like this "pops up", the evening is a write-off.

I've already, with her consent, wiped her advertising profiles once. This reduced the incidents from, at its peak, every couple days, to every couple weeks.

Thing is, none of these stories are against any kind of content policy. News reporting and articles about history are all above-board. But this kind of stuff showing up on her feed, mixed with "normal" baby stuff, with alarming frequency? That's for the first time that I felt how "the algorithm" can fuck people over.