Please see an excerpt from the piece below:
We can’t ban every app or platform, but we can reimagine the digital landscape so everyone has the option of a healthier relationship with their screens. My heart breaks over and over again when I hear children cry out in fear of losing TikTok or any other social media platform. They believe the seeds of misinformation that the platforms are purposefully planting. I believe the People’s Bid for TikTok, led by Project Liberty and founder Frank McCourt, is the best and most promising solution to one of the biggest issues of our day: the toxic digital sphere and its negative impact on kids. Project Liberty’s vision promises to rebuild the app without its current algorithm, creating a safer and better alternative to what exists now.
Moreover, the People’s Bid for TikTok would give people ownership of their data, and put us — not Big Tech’s profit-driven stakeholders — in charge of our digital experience. I’m urging all parents to learn more about this bid and how it would make TikTok safer and healthier for kids — and then to have conversations with their children and other parents about social media and its pervasive harms. A reimagined TikTok would be a major step toward creating a digital world where people are empowered — and kids are protected.
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