The social media platforms that youth use everyday have built a multi-billion dollar attention extraction economy that profits by keeping us scrolling, clicking, and watching. The result is a system that creates addiction, self-obsession, misinformation, serious mental health issues, content that outrages and polarizes, and the replacement of real-world, connected relationships. Children are feeling some of the worst effects of this broken attention economy, and we need urgent action.
Source: www.humanetech.com
