When Parental Controls Fail: Teaching Your Kids Digital Literacy

Right now, social media giants Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) and Google (parent company of YouTube) are both in a court battle debating whether their products are addictive. (TikTok and Snapchat were also named in the lawsuit but settled out of court.)Plaintiffs argue that these companies purposely created addictive products and marketed them to underage users, leading to a surge in teen mental health problems: anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, self-harm,