{
  "id": 876195,
  "title": "Down the rabbit hole: Social media is exploiting youthful angst for profit or politics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/down-the-rabbit-hole-social-media-is-exploiting-youthful-angst-for",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T13:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Channel News Asia",
    "slug": "channel-news-asia",
    "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/today/big-read/youth-online-social-media-influence-consumption-politics-extremist-views-6317066"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Teenage insecurities are nothing new, but social media has made it easier for commercial, political and ideological actors to identify what young people worry about, keep feeding those anxieties and offer products, communities or beliefs as answers.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}