This programme looks at the indifference by social media companies regarding the deaths of children due to their inaction.
Deny, delay & deflect seems to be their strategy, but a psychologist says he lost sleep for weeks after viewing some if the posts in question.
The coroner for one child says that these posts affected her mental health in a negative way and contributed to her death in a more than minimal way (suicide.)
Generative AI is a new threat on the horizon as it can sound and act like a human, but it just "spews lies" and is said to be a threat to democracy. A Nobel Peace Prize journalist said that she was worried in 2016, but that 2024 will be a tipping point and elections could be impacted by this. She days she's gone from being a passionate supporter of new technology, to a skeptic and is now an activist against it.
The programme asks if, after 20 years, Silicon Valleys radical experiment to connect the world about to implode.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xlsl