Last month, Meta and Google were found guilty of negligence in a lawsuit arguing that social media has helped fuel a generation’s mental health crisis. The plaintiff was a young woman who began using Instagram and YouTube compulsively in elementary school, and who began to experience acute depression and anxiety shortly thereafter. She argued that Meta and Google intentionally designed their products to be addictive and exploitative of human vulnerabilities, then failed to inform people about the dangers. She won.
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Hannah Miller King
Hannah Miller King is a priest and writer in the Anglican Church in North America. She writes for Christianity Today and serves as the associate rector at The Vine Anglican Church in western North Carolina. Hannah is the author of Feasting on Hope: How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness. She and her husband, also a priest, have three children. For more of her work, see https://www.hannahmillerking.com/
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