United States President Joe Biden began his first official State of the Union address to Congress fourteen months after taking office, paying homage to the courage of the Ukrainian people but then he also spoke of social stability, diplomacy, pandemic, climate ed economics stating its intention to aim for lower costs to fight inflation now reached levels never recorded in forty years.
American politics continues to hold high too attention on social networks. Biden has requested Congress to implement new laws to increase the safety of children on social platformsespecially on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
We must hold the social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they are conducting on our children to make a profit. The time has come to strengthen privacy safeguards, ban targeted advertising to children, and ask technology companies to stop collecting our children’s personal data.
There was also listening to the President’s speech “Facebook mole”Frances Haugen, than with its revelations has put Meta in difficulty by opening disturbing scenarios on what happens in Menlo Park with regard to the safety of adolescents.
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“We need safeguards”, Biden said, who will require specific funding to study the issue of child safety on social media. Biden also plans to request an additional $ 5 million to start research into the mental health impact of social media and, in this regard, a “National Center of Excellence on Social Media and Mental Illness” with the aim of developing new guidelines on the impact of the use of social media by minors.
Several bipartisan bills have already been presented to Congress to initiate the kind of reforms Biden wanted, including an update to the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act.
Biden has supported tech reform more than some initially expected, and his focus on social media demonstrates that regulation of the tech industry is a real priority for his administration. The remarks on the damage caused by social media were mentioned as part of her broader agenda with which she intends to address what she has termed. “the country’s mental health crisis” which saw depression rates increase significantly during the pandemic.
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