A group of teenagers travelled from Schull to Leinster House today to ask Facebook to 'face up' to its impact on young people and their body image
Image: Aoife Barry Image: Aoife Barry A GROUP OF teenagers from Schull Community College travelled to Facebook headquarters and Leinster House in Dublin today to tell the tech giant to ‘face up’ to the impact its algorithms have on their lives.
It also wants the government to commit to stronger rules and laws that “minimise the harm caused by Facebook and other global digital corporations” via the Online Media Safety Regulation Bill and the European Digital Services Act. Another teenager, Megan, said: “We’re all just a bit annoyed that we’ve had to miss school today because these people running Facebook can’t be arsed to protect us. We have to be up here when we should be in school, we should be learning – instead we have to ask them: Hey, can you do something [about this].”
She said it took effort for her to learn about what was going on with social media algorithms, and that there should be more education for teenagers, particularly around filters and body image. “I don’t see any of that [education] coming from Facebook,” she said.Their appearance at Leinster House comes weeks after former Facebook employee Frances Haugen spoke before a US Senate subcommittee about the impact of Facebook ’s platforms on the mental health of teenagers.
#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you“I think it’s really great seeing them up here today, using their voice. As one of the girls there said, they had to take a day off school to do this today, and that’s absolutely outrageous.”
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