The FTC will hire child psychologists to help inform its social media regulation.

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In an interview with The Record, FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya says the agency plans on hiring in-house child psychologists to help it evaluate the mental effects of social media, look into the impact of dark patterns, and monitor trends. Bedoya says the FTC plans to hire child psychologists by the fall of 2024 “if not significantly sooner.

In an interview with, FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya says the agency plans on hiring in-house child psychologists to help it evaluate the mental effects of social media, look into the impact of dark patterns, and monitor trends.

If I have an economic question I’ve got 80 Ph.D. economists I can ask. If someone is making an allegation about mental health harms, I have no full-time staff who are experts in the psychology of it... I just think that we can send a strong signal to other law enforcement agencies in the U.S. by saying we need to have these folks in-house such that it’s a standing capacity.

Bedoya says the FTC plans to hire child psychologists by the fall of 2024 “if not significantly sooner.”

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