ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Newly released court documents from a class action lawsuit on social media addiction expose Common Sense Media and its affiliates to be marketers of social media to kids—not protectors of their health. This means that our nation’s most prominent organization providing health guidance about kids’ screens is misleading parents and putting a generation of young people at risk.
I follow the money to show how Common Sense Media is leveraging its trusted name to pocket millions from Silicon Valley and promote harmful social media and other screens to kids. It does this while promising to be our faithful friend. I describe actions for parents and schools to protect youth from Common Sense Media’s unsafe actions to instead provide kids a healthy and successful childhood.
Articles from this Episode
● Christina Dinur’s “How to Identify Propaganda From Big Tech When You See It”
● Emily Cherkin’s “5 Organizations Who Take $$$ From Tech That You Should Know About”
● Denise Champney’s “The Educational Technology Industrial Complex Timeline”
Richard Freed’s books:
- Better Than Real Life: The Secret Science Addicting Kids to Screens—and How to Save Childhood
- Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age
Website: RichardFreed.com
