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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Johana Bhuiyan

‘Fundamentally against their safety’: the social media insiders fearing for their kids

illustration of computer games characters crossing a bridge with notifications coming out of their phones while two figures with the instagram and x logo for heads hold a net beneath them
‘When it comes to child safety, it’s always an afterthought.’ Illustration: Jinhwa Jang/The Guardian

Arturo Bejar would not have let his daughter use Instagram at the age of 14 if he’d known then what he knows now.

Bejar left Facebook in 2015, where he spent six years making it easier for users to report when they had problems on the platform. But it wasn’t until his departure that he witnessed what he described in recent congressional testimony as the “true level of harm” the products his former employer built are inflicting on children and teens – his own included.

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