PROOF: https://i.redd.it/9oybmy7d9sva1.jpg

I’m an investigative reporter at Bloomberg News, and I extensively examined how TikTok can serve up a stream of anxiety and despair to teens. “Death is a gift.” “The perfect ending.” “I wanna die.” I spent hours watching videos like this on the TikTok account of a New York teenager who killed himself last year. The superpopular app says it’s making improvements — but it now faces a flood of lawsuits after multiple deaths.

While practically all tech companies are secretive about their data, insiders who also had experience working for Google, Meta and Twitter cast TikTok as Fort Knox by comparison. You can read my story here and listen to me talk about it on The Big Take podcast here. You can read my other investigations into TikTok and others here.

EDIT: Thanks for joining me today. Social media has become ubiquitous in our lives, yet we do not know what the long-term impact is going to be on kids. These are important conversations to have and we should all be thinking about how to better protect children in our new digital world. I will continue to report on this topic -- and feel free to send me thoughts or tips to: [email protected]