Last night I was invited to go on the @BBCNews channel with presenter Christian Fraser to react to the breaking news that #Meta & #Google had been found liable in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, brought by a young woman who claims she became addicted to social media as a child.

I had less than 15 minutes to get ready and I had to listen to the press conference and react to it immediately - so please excuse the messy hair 😅

Here are the main points of what I said:

📌This is a civil case. We need robust legislation, otherwise there is no precise US federal or state law that the tech giants have broken and they can keep appealing. You need to have a law in order to determine someone broke that law.

📌Right now, although we know there *is* definitely harm, the studies are inconclusive & only self-reporting. We need more studies and proven psychological analysis of harm to our young people.

📌We need our governments to stop being lenient with the tech giants and make it clear what specifically we expect from them, what tools and features we want to see, and we need to base that off specific, stated, measured harms.

#socialmedia #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #techpolicy #technews #technology #socialmediaaddiction #socialmediaban

#UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest #SocialMediaBan Proposal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/uk-politicians-continue-miss-point-latest-social-media-ban-proposal

#SocialMedia #privacy #AgeVerification #cybersecurity

‘Restricting access to social media presents “issues of human rights, because a child has a right to receive information just like anybody else.”’

https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/2036489596700164563?s=20

Did #Australia's under-16s #SocialMediaBan work?

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq8g9y5x1llo

#privacy #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #politics