I am increasingly convinced social media ban IS the answer. Not a ban for under-16, but a total ban. Commercial social media just quite simply has to be burned to the ground, no one even tries to run it safely any more.
@neil

@CordiallyChloe @osma @neil I dare say - initially the social networks (blogs, early Twitter) also helped privileged people like me (cis het white abled male in EU) to hear the voices of all kinds of less represented groups, also abroad.
In the physical world, in direct interaction, the local demographics and social structure both are a strong filter. News came in from a limited number of (controlled, tamed, poisoned) outlets.
This completely shielded us privileged from all the suffering, and the struggle, needs, concerns, opinions, ideas existing outside our small landscape:
early social networks were a way to escape some of these physical filters.
Now they are another system of filters, and I think only a cognizant use of mastodon and RSS (and Signal) would have the same positive function they initially had.