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Algorithms are making kids desperately unhappy
Algorithmic recommendations are not just bad for kids’ mental health, they are taking away the journey of discovery that comes with being human
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For kids, the only acceptable online environment is one customised by big tech algorithms, which feed them customised content.
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Chris Murphy
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Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think.
So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that they even baulk at the idea of searching the Internet – for them, the only acceptable online environment is one customised by Big Tech algorithms, which feed them customised content.
