"Can't Look Away": New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids
*Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media* is a new documentary that exposes the real-life consequences of the algorithms of big tech companies and their impact on children and teens. In 2022, social media companies made an estimated $11 billion advertising to minors in the U.S., where 95% of teenagers use social media. One in three teens uses social media almost constantly. “These products, they’re not designed to hook us, adults,” says Laura Marquez-Garrett, an attorney at the Social Media Victims Law Center in Seattle who is featured in *Can’t Look Away*. “They are designed to hook children.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/4/can_t_look_away_social_media
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