Should Social Media Platforms Monitor Teen Data to Prevent Online Sexual Exploitation?

Social media platforms have become an essential in teenagers' social lives, education and even their identity formation. Apps like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram which have been created to connect one another, have become spaces where people who should not be connecting with teens are. Creating much bigger issues like online sexual exploitation and grooming are occurring more and more, and they are finding new ways to do this. To deal with these risks, these social media platforms have started collecting and analyzing user data which raises an ethical dilemma; should social media platforms…