The teen mental health crisis: a reckoning for Big Tech
The last minutes of 16-year-old Ian Ezquerra’s life were spent on Snapchat. Outwardly, the teenager, who had excelled in school and was a member of its swimming team, was a happy young man. But as his social media use increased, so did his anxiety. His mother, Jennifer Mitchell, was unaware Ian was viewing dangerous content across a variety of platforms that would be unsuitable for adults, let alone impressionable young people. “There were subtle changes in his behaviour that I…
