Social Media and Your Kids: Your Questions Answered

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Last year, the U.S. Surgeon General warned that social media could pose “profound risk of harm” to young people’s mental health. What makes social media potentially harmful, and whose responsibility is it to protect kids? Reporters Julie Jargon and Jeff Horwitz answer your questions about how social media works and what that means for parents. And Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, tells us about the role legislation could play. Luke Vargas hosts. Further reading: ‘You Have Blood on Your Hands’: Senators Say Tech Platforms Hurt Children States Crack Down on Social Media for Teens: ‘There Are No Guardrails’ NYC Sues Social-Media Companies for Youth Mental-Health Effects Keeping Teens Safe Online Has to Go Beyond Parental Controls. Here’s What to Do. Meta Staff Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. The Company Pressed Ahead Anyway. How Governments Are Trying to Keep Young Children Off Social Media, From Face Scans to ID Checks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.6	Hey what's news listeners it's Sunday Marchrd. I'm Luke Fargis.
0:45.0	And I'm Anne-Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.
0:48.0	This is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news.
0:53.4	We reach out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.
0:58.8	This week we're answering your questions about how social media is affecting kids, what platforms are doing to limit known
1:05.8	harms for young people's mental health, and whether the government needs to intervene,
1:10.6	and if so, how. You ready? Let's get right to it.
1:15.0	When we asked you to share your concerns about social media's influence on kids,
1:22.0	we heard back about a wide array of issues, from
1:26.1	bullying and constant screen time to the formation of potentially addictive habits.
1:31.8	And add to that, reporting on how social media can worsen
1:34.7	teens body image, make them targets of sexual harassment, and increase their
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