Zoe McKenzie

I actually liked having an account for my child before because as the parent, I could monitor it.

And if that was every parent and every parent had the time to be able to do that,

we probably wouldn't have a problem.

But it was overwhelmingly the parents who came to us and said, I had no idea what rabbit holes my child was going into.

I had no idea how quickly this could take hold of my child's mental health.

And so you'd have a happy, independent, resilient child, and six weeks later, a very, very precariously depressed child who

And the parents felt unable to either monitor or guide because, of course, all of our algorithmic feeds are completely idiosyncratic.

You know, we are a bit similar to you in that we're having great fluctuations in Australian politics here with some more...

right-wing party, particularly around things like migration.

People ring me in a panic and go, oh my God, there's all this terrible stuff online and it's all you see.

It's all you see.

And I go, I don't see any.

I'm like the Pollyanna politician.

I don't see any of this stuff.

I was like, good stuff and good debate, interesting debate and what's happening in the United Kingdom in social media.

But that's because that's the stuff I'm interested in, right?

So you get fed what you're interested in.

And so people think that their kids are just seeing what they're seeing and it's like, no, your child is in a very different place and unless you're sitting on their shoulder,

You're not going to see where your child is digitally.

No.