Your child, who suffers from schizophrenia, has been enticed by Facebook (Meta) to join a group called 'Remote Neural Monitoring', which specifically targets individuals who experience auditory hallucinations and paranoia. As a result, your son or daughter has ceased taking medication and denies having any psychiatric condition. However, the situation worsens when you search for this term on Google and are confronted with images that appear to have been deliberately created to portray individuals who hear voices in a ludicrous, inappropriate, and downright bizarre manner. It is not just one or two images that are disturbing, amateurish, and strange; rather, all of them are. It is perplexing how both Facebook and Google have allowed such content to proliferate. The way in which individuals are depicted in photojournalistic images significantly influences our perception of them. The consequences of these depictions can have far-reaching effects on our attitudes towards these individuals. Previously, your adult son or daughter, who already faced marginalization, may have elicited sympathy from others. However, now, branded as a 'Targeted Individual', your child has become a subject of ridicule.
