Casey Newton

I want to ask you guys what you think about something, because I'm still working through this in my own mind.

We were talking earlier about like, okay, well, what is the specific feature that like leads to the mental health problems suffered by like Kaylee and some of the other folks in these bellwether cases?

And I do suspect that, you know, autoplay video, infinite scroll, endless push notifications, that all have something to do with it.

I suspect maybe though the strongest factor is algorithmic personalization, right?

It's I searched for one video about how to get skinny.

And now all of a sudden I'm in like a nightmare wasteland of eating disorder content.

And that actually does increase my depression and it leads to increase the intensity of my eating disorder.

Okay.

As a society, I think we want to stop that, right?

We don't want you to get dragged down that rabbit hole.

We

Can we regulate that?

This is actually just the trickiest issue to me, right?

Because on one hand, I could see Congress passing a law saying, hey, if you're 16 and younger, we just want to disable algorithmic personalization, at least at the level of the individual, right?

Maybe we'll group you into a bucket and we'll say, 16-year-olds in America seem to like this kind of content, and we're okay with that.

But you personally know we're going to block that for you because we don't want you to get dragged down a rabbit hole.

But is that constitutional under the First Amendment?

I don't know.

I'm just curious what you guys make of that.

So I wrote this piece and the headline was, is anyone left to stand up for trust and safety?