OPINION
Big Tech’s Reckoning Is Here. Our Children Cannot Wait.
Megan Cannedy | Jul 19, 2026
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Recently, social media, namely Meta and Google/YouTube, took one of their first major hits in two decades of supremacy within our culture. The groundbreaking California case tried the tech giants for a young woman’s social media addiction and the resulting mental health effects she experienced, beginning when she was a teenager. She won.
This ruling opened the door for new cases currently making their way through the court system. In fact, within the last month, the UK has restricted social media access for youth under age 16, including TikTok and YouTube.
Likewise, TikTok has faced lawsuits from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), over a dozen state attorneys general, hundreds of school districts, and private families over intentional child and adolescent addiction features and corresponding mental health outcomes.
Is this merited? And what is our collective cultural responsibility as we respond?
I was in the experimental Zuckerberg generation that innocently typed in our university email addresses to sign up and post college shenanigans between friends. The truth is, though, as platforms have expanded and entrenched all tiers of society, we can’t claim naivety anymore.
Social media has been around long enough; we know what it does—especially how it impacts our youth. Studies consistently show that social media use impacts mental health in children, adolescents and young adults, including exponentially increasing anxiety and depression.
According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), over one in five adolescents in the U.S. currently have a diagnosed mental or behavioral health condition such as anxiety, depression, or a behavior/conduct problem—the question is no longer whether this is connected to social media; youth themselves report the negative impact.
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Dr. Megan Cannedy is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Colorado Christian University in the College of Adult and Graduate Studies’ School of Counseling. A licensed marriage and family therapist in California and Texas, she brings more than a decade of experience in counseling, faith-based organizations, and clinical counseling education.
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