Big Tech’s sticky web has trapped children, addicting and exploiting them

Published March 18, 2026 10:00am ET



It has never been clearer that multibillion-dollar Big Tech giants that design social media and other tech platforms are preying on our children. In fact, the evidence reveals that these highly profitable businesses, which in the past have only provided avenues for sexual predators, traffickers, sextortionists, and pornographers to groom and exploit children, are now groomers and exploiters of children themselves.

In several recent trials, evidence and testimony reveal that Big Tech has deliberately hooked children on social media and enabled them to be sexually exploited.

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