Please Stop Sacrificing Our Children for Profit: The Critical Need to Mitigate Commercial Technology Threats to Child and Youth Wellbeing

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202502.0334.v1
• Publication Date: 2025-02-07T02:38:16Z
• Authors: Tanya Halsall; Alexis Holmgren; Zac Arseneau; Misha Jan; Nishad Khanna; Nicole Obeid; Ingibjorg E. Thor...; Marco Zenone; Amanda Bellefeuille

Youth mental health is in crisis. Although the influence of social media on youth has been under debate scientific community over last several years, there now a growing consensus that it causing significant harms to many children and youth, demanding immediate action address these effects. We outline complex pathways how they are increasing inequities young people. apply commercial determinants (CDoH) framework highlight mechanisms driving crisis offer solutions it. This approach places focus business practices critical actors tech industry create while accumulating power wealth. These will have an impact us all. Young people canary coal mine.