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How Tech is Harming its Most Vulnerable Users
26 minutes Posted Jun 19, 2018 at 2:00 am.
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When Jared was just a pre-teen his childhood hobby, playing video games, morphed into a 

compulsive and eventually harmful obsession. Years later, he's still working to move 

past it, and he's not alone. This week on Decrypted, Bloomberg Technology's Pia Gadkari goes 

to Boston to meet Jared and his pediatrician Dr Michael Rich, whose research shows there 

are mental health repercussions for some children who spend hours online. Pia explores what 

parents as well as tech companies can do to identify — and address — the problem.

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