Carlo CocuzziAI Expert, Pod Cast Host, Real Estate Investor and Funding Specialist

My Kid Deleted Instagram This Morning

6 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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The speaker's son Jack deleted Instagram, joining kids abandoning TikTok over addictive recommendation engines. He warns that China's media control tactics, like forcing blood to appear green in videos, show how states can manipulate content. Advanced AI agents could eventually do this globally, targeting individuals with personalized persuasion that bypasses free speech protections.

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My youngest son Jack actually told me this morning that he turned off Instagram. He just deleted it from his phone. And, and all the kids had already gotten rid of TikTok. The suggestion engine is so good and it just sucks you in. And before you know it, an hour of doom scrolling has gone by. It's like, oh my God, what am I doing here? But, you know, the Chinese— you heard Alvin Graylin on the podcast say that, you know, in China they banned everything. You, you can't show blood in a video. You can't show blood in a video game. The blood comes out green. Like, okay, well, if they're allowed to ban That level of detail, they're going to control all of these actions and try and prevent their children from being sucked into the vortex. Meanwhile, they're perfectly happy to sell it to every other country in the world and generate that revenue. I got to imagine the CCP is sitting there saying, "Wow, these guys are just suckers. We can launch any AI-generated influence machine on any country, completely change the national opinion, and turn the dials here from Beijing, and they don't seem to be able to do anything about it. They've all got free speech and whatever; they can't protect themselves at all. These AI agents are so good." I mean, they're going to get smarter and smarter and smarter and user-specific. That's the new thing.