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2 “The TikTok Spiral, Part 3: Escape the Algorithm.” The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Briefing Podcast, Transcript, 29 December 21, https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/the-tiktok-spiral-part-3-escape-the-algorithm/661dc0b5-67c5-4c3d-8ecf-33a3fd9183a6
3 Wells, Georgia, Horwitz, Jeff, and Seetharaman, Deepa. “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic
for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show.” Wall Street Journal, 14 September 21. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?mod=series_facebookfiles.
4 Marples, Megan. “The 'devious licks' TikTok challenge has students stealing toilets and vandalizing bathrooms.” CNN, 18 September 21. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/health/devious-licks-tiktok-challenge-wellness/index.html
5 Littman, Lisa. “Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria.” PLOS ONE 14(3). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330
6 Moyer, Melinda Wenner. “Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies: Although children are prime targets, educators cannot figure out how best to teach them to separate fact from fiction. The Scientific American, 1 Feb 2022.
7 Alter, Adam. Irresistible: The of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (New York: Penguin Press, 2017), p. 3.
8 Ibid, p. 217.
9 Waters, Jamie. “Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts.” The Observer. 22 August 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/aug/22/how-digital-media-turned-us-all-into-dopamine-addicts-and-what-we-can-do-to-break-the-cycle.
10Taylor, Kathleen, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control (Oxford: Oxford Landmark Science, 2017, 2004), p. ix.
11 Ibid, p. 227.
12 Ibid, p. xiii
13 Alter, Irresistible, p. 1.
14 Taylor, Brainwashing, p. 95.