Your kids are not safe online | Sharon McMahon

There is no federal law in the United States preventing your 8-year-old from making a social media account. No minimum age requirement. No comprehensive national legislation. Just piecemeal state policies and a social infrastructure that can't keep up with the technology it's supposed to regulate. On this week's #FQBroadlines, hosts Rae Williams and Natalie Lizarraga sit down with author, educator and podcaster Sharon McMahon to talk about the very real and very urgent crisis of kids on the internet. From why the algorithm is engineered to be addictive to how social media is driving a mental health emergency among teenage girls to why consumer protection laws might be the only tool powerful enough to hold these platforms accountable. Sharon is here to break down what's actually happening and what it would take to fix it.

Follow Sharon McMahon: @SharonSaysSo

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Hosted by Rae Williams and Natalie Lizarraga
Directed by Sydney Kramer
Executive Produced by Sydney Kramer and Rachel Apirian
Produced by Rae Williams and Natalie Lizarraga
Filmed & Edited by Chanelle Tyson

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Broadlines is a production of The Female Quotient and recorded in Los Angeles, California.