• Social-media apps are killing our kids. Do adults care?

    Posted on July 8, 2024 at 02:44 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    Brian Livingston

    By Brian Livingston

    Rates of suicide and self-harm among teens and preteens in the US and other countries have doubled, tripled, and even quintupled in the past dozen years. Now we may finally know why.

    An explosive front-page article in The Wall Street Journal on June 21, 2024, revealed that Instagram — with more than 2 billion monthly active users — feeds disturbing videos to viewers who register as minors. The website’s Reels stream, the newspaper said, feeds to teenagers three times as many sex videos as it sends to adults over the age of 30, 1.7 times as much violence, and 4.1 times as much bullying.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.28.0, 2024-07-08).

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