David McCullagh
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I mean, the WHO reported last year that 11% of adolescents displayed problematic social media use with addiction-like systems.
Where do they go to find it?
I mean, are there supplies of that available?
Is that needed?
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland surveyed
4,000 adolescents and found those who spent more than four hours per day on social media were significantly more likely to report symptoms of poor mental health.
OK, Clarissa Ward, CNN, Chief International Correspondent.
OK, Tracey, your next one is called Saoirse.
I feel your pain and thank you very much indeed.
And you'll have to help me with the author's name.
Professor Matthew Sadler of the IMO, we've had him on this programme, referred to a truly toxic online landscape.
There is a couple of texts in on this.
Before I let you go, Clarissa, you'll like this one.
Okay, but why hasn't it happened up to now?
My 13-year-old daughter had loads of issues getting into Spain and out of Spain with those passport scanners.
Not only can children and adults alike access at will the most malevolent and dangerous content, but certain social media apps by their design reward that behaviour by directing users towards ever more extreme content.
I mean, before you were in charge of this department, I'm not suggesting that, but the target, in order to get to 51% reduction by 2030, we were supposed to have five gigawatts, as you say, of offshore wind energy.
None of them accepted her passport and finally had to go to a person at a desk.
I thought it was because her surname is different to mine.
What sort of message are you giving to the general population about how this virus might be kept away from their homes?