Email your MP today! Ask them to support raising the age limit to 16 for harmful social media platforms in the House of Commons vote on April 15th
Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of The Social Media Victims Law Centre represents over 1500 US and UK families whose children have suffered severe mental health harms or lost their lives through dangerously defective social media apps.
For years, social media companies denied their algorithms were harmful, dismissed links to mental health harms and rejected claims for addiction.
Last month in the landmark Los Angeles social media addiction trial the jury found that Meta and YouTube were liable for designing dangerous algorithms that caused severe mental health harm to a young woman.
The social media giants were also found liable for intentionally and maliciously designing platforms to addict kids. Time and time again these companies chose profits over the safety of kids.
As MPs in the UK prepare to vote again in the House of Commons on Wednesday 15th April on the amendment to restrict harmful social media platforms from accessing our children, Matthew Bergman urges them to consider the evidence presented in court.
“Meta’s own documents indicate that a third of kids are confronted with unwanted sexual approaches from predatory adults every week. Two thirds of girls want to get off social media and can’t.”
Tik Tok’s own documents establish that they know and consciously design their platforms to be addictive. Tik Tok and Snap settled just before the social media trial was due to start.
Please write to your MP today and ask them to Raise the Age of Harmful social media platforms to 16. You can use this easy template letter – it takes two minutes.
https://raisetheage.eaction.org.uk/raisetheageto16/
As Matthew says “The idea that there is any more studying that needs to be done before we make a decision on whether or not we are going to protect our kids from online dangers… is a false dichotomy. MPs in the UK should look, not at the arguments social media companies make, not at the platitudes that they are articulating about how they really care about safety but look at their own documents. These companies cannot be trusted with the safety and welfare of our children.”
Raise the Age UK, Health Professionals for Safer Screens and SafeScreens are united in our support for the amendment. MPs must vote in the best interests of our children.
Write to your MP today:
https://raisetheage.eaction.org.uk/raisetheageto16
https://socialmediavictims.org.
