“Think about it. In America, we’re afraid to let our kids out in a park because we think they’ll be abducted. There’ll be a stranger hanging out by the playground, luring them into a car, and that has happened in America. It’s very, very rare, there’s only about 150 cases of true kidnapping by strangers in this country every year so it’s extremely rare but it does happen. We’re very afraid of strangers approaching our children. But guess what? The strangers are not at the playground anymore, they’ve moved to Instagram." Well said Jonathan Haidt 👏 we need to get to a point where companies are held responsible for underage use. 🔞 Jay Shetty #OnPurposePodcast #fraudprevention #identityverification #IDV #underageusers #safeguarding #protectingchildren
Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, author of instant #1 NYT bestseller “The Anxious Generation,” “The Coddling of the American Mind,” “The Righteous Mind,” & “Happiness Hypothesis.” Latest research: AfterBabel.com
Social media apps exist in order to sell access to your attention, and they know more about their users than their immediate family members know. Meta's internal documents reveal that it's an open secret that there are millions of under-13 accounts. Congress must force social media companies to enforce their own age limits, and raise the minimum age to 16. With Jay Shetty, thanks for a great conversation — full episode in their pod feeds.