Richard Hogan: We need to take on Big Tech and let children really be children

Social media platforms plucked our children from real life activities and friendships and imprisoned them in their rooms, Richard Hogan

Richard Hogan: 'Everything in a teenage brain is designed for peer reinforcement, feedback and attention. That is how they discover who they are... Social media platforms plucked our children from real life activities and friendships and imprisoned them in their rooms.'

It really feels like the woods are beginning to move against Big Tech. For too long now, they have had free access to our children’s attention and wellbeing.

There is an entire generation born in the early 2000s who traversed this landscape unfettered and unprotected. The research coming out on that generation is quite staggering. I am currently interviewing Gen Z students to see what their lives are like now, having had unlimited access to a lawless social media environment and pandemic shutdowns — and what I’m hearing is incredibly sad...