Why we shouldn’t ban kids from social media

Anna North, Vox argues there are better ways to mitigate the potential dangers of social media which include reporting requirements and restrictions on tracking to make the experience of being online better for everyone, not just kids.

“We should all be getting less algorithmically driven content,” Devorah Heitner, author of the book Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World

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