I’m 43. I made a fake Snapchat account pretending to be a 15-year-old. Within seconds, Snapchat’s algorithm delivered content it deemed “age appropriate.” Hardly.

No child should be fed the content I saw, by algorithm or content moderator.

Today, October 26, 2021, on the heels of testimony a few weeks ago by Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower (as she will forever be known), members of Congress grilled executives from several other technology companies, including Snap, Inc. (Snapchat), TikTok, and YouTube…

Senator Blumenthal, like so many experts in recent years, compared this moment of reckoning for Big Tech to be similar to that of Big Tobacco. As we saw with Antigone Davis’s testimony on Facebook’s deceptive and harmful practices a few weeks ago, again today representatives of powerful and wealthy technology companies continued to deflect, dodge, and deny responsibility…

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Emily Cherkin, M.A.Ed., is a tech-intentional parent, educator, speaker, writer, and founder of The Screentime Consultant, LLC, and her work has been featured in local and national news, including in The New York Times and on The Today Show and Good Morning, America.