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When social media platforms profit from our children's time

My teenage daughter spends six hours a day on TikTok while Meta's shareholders get richer from her attention, and I feel like I am watching her childhood being monetized.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Human attention becomes a commodity extracted by platforms for shareholder benefit.

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“Where Are You with Technology and inequality — who benefits who pays?”

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