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‘It makes you want to throw your phone in the bin’: The film turning teens off social media – The Age
A bombshell documentary in which founders of the world’s biggest social media apps discuss how harmful they are to mental health is causing teens, and parents, to reconsider their use.
“It just makes you want to stop and throw your phone in the bin it’s so eye-opening.”
The documentary premiered at Sundance Film Festival early this year but hit Netflix this month and is trending online and among parents who have long worried about the impact social media has on kids’ self-esteem.
In it, many of the co-creators of global platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest and others reveal they are so concerned about the harms of social media that they ban or severely…
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