A child need not encounter violent, pornographic, or hateful content to suffer profound harm; it is enough to be entrapped by infinite scroll mechanisms, gamified feedback loops, or pseudo-choice interfaces that distort perception, erode self-control, and monetise vulnerability. These harms are not accidental—they are deliberate artefacts of... See more

The academic Shoshana Zuboff calls this “surveillance capitalism”: tech companies get us hooked through addictive design and extract huge amounts of our personal data in order to sell us hyper-targeted ads. The result is a society characterised by atomisation, alienation and the erosion of our attention spans.

There was Arturo Béjar’s testimony in 2023. The former Facebook engineer told senators, “Meta continues to publicly misrepresent the level and frequency of harm that users, especially children, experience on the platform.”

And there was Frances Haugen’s bombshell testimony in 2021: “I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook... See more