Opinion: Big tech doesn’t care about your kids

But let’s be brutally honest: Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube can’t get to your kid without your help. When we buy our children these devices, we send them out into the digital world to experience things we would never allow them to see in real life. — Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash

Instagram head Adam Mosseri recently sat for a two-plus hour grilling with members of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security. As I read about his testimony before Congress, I couldn’t help but grieve for today’s adolescents. Growing up is hard enough. Growing up in the warped world of social media is a nightmare.

And no one has the guts to protect them from it. Not big tech, which is motivated by profit to prey upon us all, and not even parents.