Social media is killing our kids.
Emergency room visits by teen girls for self-harm have doubled since 2010 (about the time Facebook took over the internet). In the same period, the number that say they've seriously considered suicide has skyrocketed to nearly 1 in 3.
Governments are finally taking action with bills to prioritize children's safety, and how does Big Tech respond? By spending millions to strong-arm politicians to vote down the plans and launching a "litigation centre" to tie the new laws up in the courts for years.
Lawmakers need to understand that thousands of parents and teens have had enough. It's time they stand up to Big Tech's lobbying onslaught. Add your name to stop social media's attack on young people:
Take action: protect our kids from Facebook and Big Tech
TikTok just rolled out a one hour time limit for users under 18, and Instagram has put tighter restrictions on what young users can see but these tweaks are just PR trickery.
Kids can easily work around these restrictions. And it doesn’t address the real problem - Big Tech’s rotten business model which relies on keeping users hooked on these apps, regardless of the harm it causes.
It’s absurd that the likes of YouTube and TikTok want to block laws that would protect kids when rates of anxiety and depression are rocketing among teens - and when experts agree that social media is helping to fuel it.
We’ve taken on some of the world’s most powerful industries before and won. Now we can take on these billon-dollar tech monopolies but it’s going to take every single one of us.
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More information
Suicide, Incels and drugs: How TikTok's deadly algorithm harms kids
Ekō. 21 March 2023.
Ekō. 21 March 2023.
Tech group launches litigation hub as regulation battle moves to courts
Washington Post. 21 March 2023.
Washington Post. 21 March 2023.