'Now is the time for Congress to act and enact safeguards that protect children and teens,' said Katharina Kopp, policy director at DigitalDemoc.
that"we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they're conducting on our children for profit" and implored lawmakers to safeguard kids' health and safety by passing legislation to improve online privacy and put an end to targeted advertising and discriminatory algorithms aimed at minors.
"Children and teens should be able to engage freely with this environment," the letter continues,"without being manipulated into spending more time online, spending more money, watching ads targeted to their vulnerabilities, surrendering more data, or engaging with content that undermines their well-being."
The pressure to spend more time on digital media platforms and maximize interactions with other users also puts children at risk from predation. Twenty-five percent of nine- to 17-year-olds report having had an online sexually explicit interaction with someone they believed to be an adult.
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