‘Polluter Pays’: A Tax on Big Tech to Reduce Online Harms (opens in new tab)

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt and Ajinkya Deshmukh from The University of Manchester. Image credit That platforms like X, Instagram, and Facebook operated by Big Tech companies cause harms to their users is now a well-established fact. The US Surgeon General has repeatedly warned that adolescent mental health and body image are adversely affected by social media. Large-scale studies from Canada and the UK show that this is not specific to the US. The thornier issue is: how do we mitigate these harms? A ...