Jillian Michaels urges parents to fight back against Big Tech's 'addictive' grip on kids

Fitness trainer and media personality Jillian Michaels is urging parents to "keep the pressure on" social media companies, warning about the platforms' allegedly "addictive" algorithms and content.Michaels made the comments during an appearance on "The Faulkner Focus" while promoting her new Fox Nation documentary, "Toxic 2: A Generation on the Brink." Michaels advised parents to limit their children's access to online activities."You have to do everything you can," Michaels said."And that means putting parental controls on your kid's phone, period.

Take the phone away at night, limit the sites that they can access, have communications with them regularly about the content that they're seeing online.But you also have to be realistic about what they're going to do when they're not with you."CHRIS HANSEN URGES PARENTS TO TEACH CHILDREN ABOUT ONLINE PREDATORS BEFORE ALLOWING INTERNET ACCESSConcerns about children's excessive screen time are explored in Fox Nation's "Toxic 2: A Generation on the Brink." (iStock)"This is the part where we also have to continue putting pressure on the social media companies to make their algorithms safer for kids," she said.

"They created an addictive product, they know it, and we need to keep the pressure on."In the documentary, Michaels examines the risks she says children face in the modern age, including excessive screen time, mental health issues and over-medicalization."The truth is, a lot of parents probably don't realize the scale of what kids are dealing with today," she said."From day one, the fragile little bodies and brains of the tiniest and most vulnerable among us are being targeted, treated and toxified from all angles."NATION'S SECOND-LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT MOVES TO LIMIT KIDS' SCREEN TIMEMichaels is joined by several experts in "Toxic 2: A Generation on the Brink," including psychology researcher Jean Twenge, who argues that individuals who begin using smartphones at an early age are more likely to experience mental ...