Social media should have “duty of care” towards kids, UK MPs urge

Social media platforms are being asked to be much more transparent about how their services work and to provide researchers with "anonymized high-level data" so that the effects of technology on users – and especially on children and adolescents – can be better understood. The appeals were launched in a report of the UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee that looked at the impacts of social media and the use of the screen on children – to determine if these technologies are "healthy or harmful". "Social media companies also need to be much more open and transparent about how they

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