Adam Oleksik

The moment when we can start regulating these platforms, seriously, we should be doing that.

But in the meantime, in our personal lives, the way that I have been navigating social media is trying to build that radical media literacy for myself.

It's my dream that one day in 10th grade ELA class, along with poetry scansion, you have a unit for how to look at TikTok.

And I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's not a joke.

In the same way, you should think about the news.

You should think about the New York Times is not printing some stories because they're filtered through layers of manufactured consent.

We should teach our kids about engagement optimization algorithms and how these are

working to trigger your reptile brain impulses, and they're not actually aligned with what you want.

So all of these things I think should be taught.

I would say it's pretty bad to go from zero to 100 like that.

But that's such a delicate question.

Clearly, it is bad for children to be looking at iPads at age two.

I would also really have to navigate that when I become a parent.

As a parent, sure.

Yeah.

It's a scary question to be grappling with.

But I think slowly integrating while teaching them lessons about this thing that's being shown, oh, that's an AI-generated video.

That is not what things really look like.

Or a lesson that I would always want to teach my kid is like, why did this show up on your For You page?

When you get a video, ask yourself that question, right?