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Susan Linn is a psychologist, award-winning ventriloquist, and a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of media and commercial marketing on children. She was the Founding Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (now called Fairplay) and is currently research associate at Boston Children’s Hospital and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. The author of Consuming Kids, The Case for Make Believe, and Who’s Raising the Kids? (all published by The New Press), she lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Here newest book is Who’s Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children. We’ll discuss all of this and more today on Lynn’s Warriors.

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The state of Indiana sued Chinese-owned short-video sharing app TikTok on Wednesday over allegations that it is deceiving users about China‘s access to their data and exposing children to mature content.

The office of Indiana Attorney General, Todd Rokita, a Republican, said the popular app, owned by ByteDance, violates the state’s consumer protection laws by not disclosing the Chinese government’s potential to access sensitive consumer information.

TikTok also deceived young users and their parents with its age rating of 12-plus in Apple’s and Google‘s app stores, Rokita’s office said in a complaint filed on Wednesday.

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So many of the toys being touted for December’s traditional gift-giving are chip-enhanced, talking, moving or playing music on their own and reducing kids to mere button pushers. Or they feature commercial characters from media juggernauts, imbued with predetermined personalities and storylines that encourage children to copy, not create. Both deprive children of opportunities to imagine, initiate, problem-solve or express themselves.

I am a psychologist whose work focuses on tracking the impact of tech and commercialism on children’s well-being. The contrast I observed between Arielle’s experience and that of several toddlers I had met not long before at a local day care center was profound. The children were on the floor, surrounded by the kinds of bestselling toys marketers today promote as “interactive” because they move and emit sounds at the push of a button.

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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is warning parents about a dramatic increase in sextortion cases being reported.

Rise in sextortion schemes targeting teen boys