Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media (2025) on Netflix

Plot summary

A legal campaign in the United States takes aim at the companies that run social media, arguing that the platforms should answer for harm done to young users. The Social Media Victims Law Center takes the cases of parents whose children died after encounters with harmful material online. Reporting cited in the account describes how services such as Snapchat feed American teenagers a stream of material about unwanted sexual advances, sextortion, suicide scenarios and drug networks. That material travels through recommendation systems built to hold attention; they differ from the ones applied to adults and draw on a user's search and viewing history. Parents often have little idea what the platforms promote to their children.