The people who built social media often don't let their own children use it.

These aren't worried parents who don't understand the technology.
They're the engineers and executives who built the platforms and saw the internal data.

And many of them made the same decision.

Not my kids.

So why isn't that the end of the argument?

This episode looks at why that fact keeps getting ignored while the debate focuses on parental choice, free speech, and whether the harm is "proven enough".

It also looks at the bias blind spot, the Facebook experiment on 700,000 users, and why the real problem might not be social media itself but the incentives driving the industry.

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Social Media's Dirty Secret: They Don't Use It - Barry's Economics

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