Social media is victimizing our children, but we aren't helpless to save them

Social media is victimizing our children, but we aren't helpless to save them. Congress has a way to prevent Big Tech from targeting kids with toxic material.

This bill would also prevent social-media companies from using personalized algorithms to promote content to underage users, algorithms that send them down "rabbit holes" of harmful content.  Republican Tom Cotton represents Arkansas in the United States Senate. He is the author of the forthcoming book, "Only the Strong" which will be published by Twelve on November 1, 2022. 

Using your children’s personal data, these apps have the ability to feed kids a relentless and personalized stream of toxic media, including sexually explicit material and content that can push children and teenagers, especially young girls, toward anorexia and suicide. And just this week, the Surgeon General released an advisory stating that social media can "have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents."