I was a teenage boy online. It took 13 minutes for the manosphere to come

By The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

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According to new analysis, screen time could damage children more than being born into poverty. The findings from the University of Calgary say higher doses of screen exposure are associated with lower overall academic achievement, poorer language development and emotional and peer problems. So what’s it actually like to be a 17-year-old on social media? What material are you fed – and how quickly? Crime and justice reporter Amber Schultz found out after she created new accounts posing first as a teenage boy, and then as a girl. Today, Schultz talks about her descent into the algorithm and what surprised her. Further reading: Posing as a 17-year-old girl online, I expected body image content. I got gender division (https://www.smh.com.au/national/posing-as-a-17-year-old-girl-online-i-expected-body-image-content-i-got-gender-division-20260910-p60wef.html) I posed as a 17-year-old boy on social media. It took 13 minutes to be shown the manosphere (https://www.smh.com.au/national/