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Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development? (yorkshirebylines.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

TVs didn’t have algorithms to keep people stuck to the screen. Problem is you can easily end up in a negative feedback loop with TikTok and YouTube Shorts where the algorithm starts to only show potentially harmful content. I’ve heard stories of teens who developed eating disorders because TikTok kept showing videos to these teens that were about dieting and pills made by people who were basically anorexic.