Snippet: "It's absolutely insane"

This snippet is from John Stonestreet in the weekly “Culture Friday” segment on The World and Everything In It podcast (September 17):

“It's absolutely insane. To give teenagers, especially young teenagers, unaccountable access to the internet, per se, and that's just because of the things that are predatory, really looking for them. But when you actually then add [how social media] actually reshapes our hearts, souls and minds, and then we give that to young girls in particular, or young men for that matter. It literally makes no sense. Future generations will look back at us with all of this that we know and basically call us child abusers.”

His “young girls in particular” comment relates to what he was taking about right before this.

And he doesn’t offer any easy answers for parents. The key terms are “young teenagers” and “unaccountable access” and “predatory.”

And the context of this discussion is the interviewer’s question regarding a new Wall Street Journal investigation of Facebook and Instagram and their “internal documents revealing the social media platforms were keenly aware of the mental health challenges their products made worse. One internal communication admitted that an Instagram study found that the app made ‘...body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.’'“ But they have surpressed this information and stated the opposite publicly.

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