Friend,
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I want to take this opportunity to highlight one of the mental health challenges our children encounter on a daily basis.
One-third of American teen girls have contemplated suicide, and many more have exhibited signs of eating disorders, self-harm, depression, and anxiety. This mental health crisis is exacerbated by unregulated social media companies, which collect data on users to push harmful information and content for the sake of profit. Internal research from these companies has supported these findings, and yet they aren’t held accountable.
WATCH: Protecting Our Children from Big Tech |
The wild west landscape of social media has caused irrevocable harm for many children, teenagers, and young adults who grow up in the digital age.
We have a responsibility to protect the well-being of young people in the face of these growing mental health concerns, and that begins with holding social media companies accountable for their role in fueling them. Onward,
Ro |
