Because these companies, not just TikTok, but Metta and Twitter and Twitch and Reddit and Discord, they are attention fracking American children. They are monetizing their attention spans and it is sabotaging mental health and American youth sense of self in society. Jonathan Haidt wrote in his New York Times bestseller that since 2012, when smartphones with social media apps became ubiquitous, we've seen the incidents of body image problems and self harm in young women skyrocket. (01:00–01:08)
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Asserts that social media companies are harming mental health and the self-perception of American youth.
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