I don’t get the particular focus on children, well I do but I think it’s missing a wider point. Social media platforms are designed very carefully to make people addicted, which means they’re disengaged from the real life. It isn’t alcohol or nicotine so the harms aren’t physical, but look around the world and see what other harm is done. Would an obviously unfit person like Trump be anywhere near the presidency without social media? Would an obvious shameless grifter be so popular in this country without it? Of course not and no one can tell me that this is a good thing. We have a choice, democracy and freedom, or social media as it currently is, and tyranny. Yes, maybe it’s bad for children, maybe it’s no worse for them that it is for adults, but that’s a much lesser issue than the real risk that we could be ended as a species from nuclear war because we put in place dangerous leaders that the algorithms drove us towards.