Big Tech Gut Check (week of April 28, 2025)

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Show Notes

The Big Tech Gut Check is a super quick, weekly update on all things social media and Big Tech.

Social Media & Big Tech highlights for this week:

• Parents Who Lost Children to Online Harms Protest Outside Meta NYC

• Meta Tries to Help Parents Enroll More Teens into Teen Accounts

• Meta's Digital Companions Will Talk Sex with Users -- Even Children

• Snapchat Announces Family Safety Hub

• Snapchat Distracts with Support of National Fentanyl Awareness Day

• [RESEARCH] New Study Shows Teens Admit Social Media is Bad for Them

• Trump Signs Executive Order Advancing AI in Education

• Take it Down Act Passes House - On President's Desk for Signature

  
  

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