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Login to their router and block the URLs for Facebook, whatever their TV provider is (since most cable tv runs through the internet nowadays), Twitter, Nextdoor, and any podcasting service you can think of.
Competing with a multi-billion dollar propaganda network as one person who they likely perpetually see as immature and uneducated is going to be like Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a mountain.
Alternatively, if they watch Fox "News", you can create a fake version of Fox with a fake Fox banner and show lefty YouTube political commentators instead. I'm sure there's some way to automate that process.
Nextdoor is a toxic waste dump.
Oh my God you are right - I had no idea because I had an account when I lived in a poor area and it was just people organizing to help repair each other's houses, occasional lost pet alert and stuff like that, nice.
We moved to a more gentrified area and I shit you not, it was "there is a black man in the street" what the actual fuck, that's your neighbor, bitch!
Now we are in a neighborhood in the middle and I tried again, holy crap no. What a mess. Unholy mix of racist rants, political rants, religious rants, people asking for money and people complaining about their health.
All corporate-owned social media is by its very nature. They're designed to make the user angry so they stay on their platforms for longer amounts of time and therefore see more advertisements.