It used to be that tucking one’s child in at night and closing the door meant that they would be safe until morning. Then social media changed everything. “[I] look forward to dying every day, so [I] can hold to God’s promise that we’ll be together one day again,” says Tony Roberts. His 14-year-old Englyn hung herself in her bedroom following a tutorial she watched on Instagram—four years later it’s still on the internet. Devastating stories of child suicides, fentanyl overdoses, and sextortion won’t be news to the executives at Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram, but, at least, were to me. The must-watch film Can’t Look Away bravely lifts the lid on social media’s underbelly and goes inside the high-stakes legal battle to hold these multibillion-dollar companies accountable. —Clara Molot
The Arts Intel Report
Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media

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