For one, they want all our data, they want to know all we do online.
For other, they found out children who grew exposed to people’s opinions online grows more critical that kids that grew on they caged propaganda. Not good for their business to have citizens that can actually think.




Without access to that the children view of the world gets limited by what their parent’s and their government said. It’s just basic logic .
Anyway if you want to talk in papers,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK594763/
This says that social media have both GOOD and BAD effects on kids and teenagers. Both.