Specialist Doctor: Social Media Is Hacking Our Brains – Nya Dagbladet

The users are not the customers of the social media giants – but the product itself, where the most important thing is to capture our attention for as long as possible and at any cost. This is stated by psychiatric specialist Anders Hansen, who points to TikTok as an example of a platform that “creates information that our brains cannot look away from”. On the state channel SVT, he explains what happens to users’ brains when they use social medi…

SOLINGEN. After the summer holidays in Solingen, a Germany-wide unique model experiment starts: All fifth graders do without social media – even at home. Schools, parents and psychologists pull together. But not all are convinced. Peng! (symbol photo) Photo: Shutterstock The project has a radical effect from the outside: From the 2025/26 school year onwards, no fifth grader should be allowed to use TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat in the North Rhin…