Meta just proved Sammy’s Law could have saved my son

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Meta just announced it will start alerting parents when their teenagers ask Instagram’s artificial intelligence chatbot about suicide or self-harm. It’s a good and overdue step. It is, whether Meta intends it this way or not, also an admission of everything that Sammy’s Law has been arguing for two years: parents cannot protect their children on these platforms unless they can see what’s happening on them in real time before it’s too late.

I know exactly how true that is, because I am one of the parents who found out too late.

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