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When your child gets news from social media instead of reliable sources

My 11-year-old knows about world events from TikTok before I know about them from the news and I worry she is learning about tragedy from teenagers with ring lights.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social media replaces curated journalism with unfiltered peer reporting, changing how children understand reality.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and children — the debate?”

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