"๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์™€ ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹‰ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ…Œํฌ ๋ฌธํ™”, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ‚ค์–ด ์Šคํƒ€๋จธ์˜ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์™€ ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹‰ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ…Œํฌ ๋ฌธํ™”, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ‚ค์–ด ์Šคํƒ€๋จธ์˜ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํšŒ์ƒ‰๋น› ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ํ•˜๋Š˜์—์„œ ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๋ฌด๋ ต, ๋‹‰ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธๅฟ์ด ๊ตํ†ต ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ๋นจ๋ž˜์ง์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ดฌ์˜์šฉ ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ์…”์ธ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ๋’ค, ์ •์ค‘ํžˆ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์…”๋„ ๋ ์ง€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„ ํ›„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€”๋จผ์ € ์ œ์•ˆ๋œ ๊ฐ€์ฃฝ ํด๋Ÿฝ ์ฒด์–ด ๋Œ€์‹  ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•œ ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์—, ์ด์–ด ๋‚ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊นŒ ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋งํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด.

ํ ์žก์„ ๋ฐ ์—†๋Š” ์˜๊ตญ ์‹ ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งค๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์˜คํ•ดํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค. 58์„ธ์˜ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋™๋“ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šฐ์•„ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฒธ์†ํ•œ ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ ํผ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์˜๊ตญ ์ •์น˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด๋‹คโ€”ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ํผ์Šค์˜ ์˜› ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ์ง‘์„ ์ƒ€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ, ์ „ ๋ถ€์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ํ…Œํฌ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ 2์ธ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ทธ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์›์™ธ ์ •์น˜์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‚ด ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ์•” ๊ณค์‚ด๋ ˆ์Šค ๋‘๋ž€ํ…Œ์Šค ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋Š” ์ •์น˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ์—ญํ• ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฌธ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ž˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์…ˆ์ผ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ "์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž ํ…Œํฌ ํ˜•์ œ๋“ค์˜ ๋•…"์—์„œ "์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ •์ฐฉํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ" ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฌ๋‹คโ€”์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 3๋…„ ์ „ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ํŒ”๋กœ์•Œํ† ์˜ ์ˆ˜์˜์žฅ ์˜† ์ƒํ™œ์„ ๋’ค๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Ÿฐ๋˜์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ์ด์œ  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹ค. ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด '์—์ŠคํŒŒ๋ƒ ๋ฉ”ํ˜ธ๋ฅด(Espaรฑa Mejor)'โ€”์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ •์ฑ… ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•จโ€”๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ "๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์—์„œ ๋ฐ˜๋ž€์„ ์„ ๋™ ์ค‘์ด์•ผ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋†๋‹ด์„ ๋˜์กŒ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์น˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์—ญ์ „๋œ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. "๊ทธ๋ž˜, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ข‹์€ ์ •์น˜์ธ์ด ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ํ›„, ๊ณค์‚ด๋ ˆ์Šค ๋‘๋ž€ํ…Œ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ ์ž์œ ๋‹น์˜ ์ง€๋„์ž๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฌธ์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํž๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋นŒ ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์šฐ์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‚ด์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ๊ทธ๋Š˜๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๋‚„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ถ”์ธกํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” 15๋…„์˜ ํž˜๋“  ์ตœ์ „์„  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค: ๋จผ์ € ๋ณด์ˆ˜๋‹น ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฆฝ ์ •๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ž์œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์ง€๋„์ž๋กœ์„œ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์˜ ํƒ€ํ˜‘์„ ์ข…์ข… ๋ณ€ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด์–ด ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์—์„œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ ์ด๊ด„์ž๋กœ์„œ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ๊ณ ์•ก์˜ ์—ฐ๋ด‰์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ 7๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ์™€ ์Šคํ†ก ์˜ต์…˜์œผ๋กœ 1์–ต ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ(์•ฝ 1700์–ต ์›)๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ณด๋„๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ธ๊ฐ€? "๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ์ •๋ณด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €๋Š”..." ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ง์„ค์ธ๋‹ค. "์ €๋Š” ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ๋ฒŒ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์ด ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ปด์š”."

์–ด๋А ์ชฝ์ด๋“ , ๊ทธ์˜ ๋น„ํŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋Œ€์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ํฐ ๋ˆ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ์— ๋งค์ˆ˜๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. "์œ ๊ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ง„์‹ค์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋‚˜์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. "์ €๋Š” ์ •๋ง๋กœ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”๊ฒฐ์ ์ด ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฐœ์ „๋œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋ฌธํ™” ์—˜๋ฆฌํŠธ๋“ค์ด ์ข…์ข… ๊ฐ„๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด, ๋ผํ‹ด์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด, ์•„์‹œ์•„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ—ˆ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”."

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ์ธ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? "์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ž๊ธฐ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€โ€”์ €๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ์ ์ธ ์ž์œ ์ฃผ์˜์  ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์€ ์ผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ์ˆœ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ž„์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ์˜ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ƒˆ ์ฑ… ใ€ŽHow to Save the Internetใ€์€ ๋…์žฌ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ AI๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ๊ฒฉํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ…Œํฌ ๊ฑฐ๋ฌผ๋“คโ€”์ œํ”„ ๋ฒ ์ด์กฐ์Šค, ์—˜๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ, ๊ทธ์˜ ์ „ ์ƒ์‚ฌ ๋งˆํฌ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธโ€”์ด ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ทจ์ž„์‹์— ์ˆœ์ข…์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค„์„ ์„œ์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฐํžŒ ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ์ „์— ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋– ๋‚จ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ์€ ์šฐ์—ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค: ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ "์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฝค๋‚˜ ์—ด์„ฑ์ ์ผ ๊ฒƒ"์€ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ •์น˜์— ๊ด€์—ฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ด์™”๊ณ , ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ƒˆ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€์™€ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ ์„ (่ตค็ทš)์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋– ๋‚จ์ด "๋งค์šฐ ๊ต์–‘ ์žˆ๋Š”" ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋– ๋‚œ ์ง€ ๋ฉฐ์น  ํ›„ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ์ •์ฑ… ๋ณ€ํ™”โ€”์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด Facebook๊ณผ Instagram์—์„œ ์ „๋ฌธ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ฒ€์ฆ์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ‚คํ”ผ๋””์•„ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฏผ์ด๋‚˜ ์„ฑ๋ณ„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์Ÿ์  ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ ์ œํ•œ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€”๋ฅผ ๋น„ํŒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋งˆํฌ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๊ฐ€ "๊ฒ€์—ด ์‹ค์ˆ˜"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด ๊ณผ์ • ์ˆ˜์ •์ด ๋น„๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์œ ์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค. "ํŠนํžˆ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๋™์•ˆ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ, ์ •๋ถ€์™€็”š่‡ณ ๊ฐ€๋””์–ธ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹ ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์••๋ ฅ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ '๋‚ด๋ ค๋†”๋ผ'์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜ท์„ ์ž…๊ณ , ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๊ณ , ๊ฐ™์€ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ตฐ์ค‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ–‰๋™์ด๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ "๋‚จ์„ฑ ์˜์—ญ"์—์„œ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ ๋กœ๊ฑด ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์—์„œ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—… ์ƒํ™œ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ "๋‚จ์„ฑ์ ์ธ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€"์™€ "๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ฑ์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๋Š”" ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๊ฒฌ์— ๋™์˜ํ–ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์ถค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. "๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ •๋ง ์ œ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ค๋คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. "๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ์ •๋ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”." ๊ธ€์Ž„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•  ๋•Œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”," ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ์ ์  ๋” ๋ถ„๊ฐœํ•ด ํ•œ๋‹ค. "์—˜๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์™€ๆ‰€ๆœ‰ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ…Œํฌ ํ˜•์ œ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๋“ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ€์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํ–‰์šด์„ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜์š”? ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ด์กฐ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ์‹ ๋ž„ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. "์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์šด์ด ์ข‹๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š”์ปค๋…•, ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ๋ถˆ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์šฐ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์„ ํฌ์ƒ์ž๋กœ ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋„, ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์ด ๊นŠ์ด ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋‹ค์›€๊ณผ ์ž๊ธฐ ์—ฐ๋ฏผ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์นญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. "๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œ๋ฐœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”โ€”๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—˜๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ํœ˜๋‘๋ฅด๋Š” ์ „๊ธฐํ†ฑ ์ต์‚ด๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ด๋–ค ์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋ฌธํ™”์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน๊ถŒ์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ‰๋“ฑ์€ ์–ต์••์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

ํŠน๊ถŒ ์ธ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋Ÿฐ๋˜์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ง‰๋‚ด์•„๋“ค 16์„ธ ๋ฏธ๊ฒ”์ด "๋ฒ„๋ฆ‡์—†๋Š” ์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ ๊ผฌ๋งˆ"๋กœ ์ž๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋†๋‹ด์„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์•„๋งˆ๋„ไป–่‡ชๅทฑ็š„ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์— ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

๋‹‰ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒ„ํ‚น์—„์…”์—์„œ 4๋‚จ๋งค ์ค‘ ์…‹์งธ๋กœ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์€ ์˜๊ตญ์ธ, ๋ฐ˜์€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์ธ์ธ ์€ํ–‰๊ฐ€์˜€๊ณ , ๋„ค๋œ๋ž€๋“œ์ธ ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ž”ํ˜นํ•œ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ํฌ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์†Œ์—์„œ ์–ต๋ฅ˜์™€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค์€ ํ”์ ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค: ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ํ˜•์ œ์ž๋งค๋“ค์€ ๋น„๋ก ์‚ฌ๋ฆฝ ํ•™๊ต ๊ต์œก์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํŠน๊ถŒ์ ์ธ ์‚ถ์„ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์ž๋ž๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ธ์ •ํ•œ ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ„๋ธ”โ€”์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์˜ํšŒ ์˜์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋ธŒ๋คผ์…€, ๊ตญํšŒ์˜์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฏผ์Šคํ„ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌโ€”์ค‘์—์„œ, ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฏผ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฅผ "๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ฐธ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  found, ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์˜๊ด‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘์ฐฉ๊ณผ ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋งŒํ•จ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

์นด๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋Š” 2005๋…„ ์˜ํšŒ์— ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—๋„ ์ง€๋„์ž๋กœ ์ง€๋ชฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ even he seemed slightly unsettled by "Cleggmania,"โ€”2010๋…„์˜ ๊ทธ ์—ด๊ด‘์ ์ธๆ™‚ๆœŸ, ๊ณ ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šด์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ์บ๋จธ๋Ÿฐ์— ๊ฐ๋™๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ฒซ TV ์„ ๊ฑฐ debate์—์„œ ์บ์น˜ํ”„๋ ˆ์ด์ฆˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ทธ๋“ค๋„ "๋‹‰์— ๋™์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋˜. ํ›„๊ฒฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ, Cleggmania๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋ถ„๋…ธํ•œ ํฌํ“ฐ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ฐ˜๋ž€์˜ ๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ์„ ์˜ˆ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

But it couldn't survive his decision to join Cameron in a coalition government. ์—ฐ๋ฆฝ ์ •๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ž์œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์€ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒโ€”๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ํ•™๊ต ๊ธ‰์‹๊ณผ ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต์„ ์œ„ํ•œๅ‡็จŽ ํ™•๋ณด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€โ€”๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ณต์ง€๊ธ‰์—ฌ ์‚ญ๊ฐ์„ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋“ฑ๋ก๊ธˆ ํ์ง€ ์•ฝ์†์„ ๊นจ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ํšŒ๋ณต๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. 2015๋…„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์ฐธ๋‹ดํ•œ ํŒจ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹นํ•œ ํ›„, ๋‹‰ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ์บ๋จธ๋Ÿฐ์ด ๋ธŒ๋ ‰์‹œํŠธ ๊ตญ๋ฏผํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒจ๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•ผ๋‹น ์˜์„์—์„œ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๋‹คโ€”์•„์ง๋„ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๋…ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ. (๊ทธ์˜ ์ „ ์—ฐ๋ฆฝ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋Š” visibleํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ธด์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์บ๋จธ๋Ÿฐ์ด ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ์˜ high-profile ์ง์—…๊ณผ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  mentionํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋Œ€๋‹ต์€ ์งง์€ "๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด commentํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด์š”"์˜€๋‹ค.) ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜๊ตญ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์ƒ์•  ๋‚ด์— EU์— ์žฌ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ debate๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, "๋ด‰ํˆฌ์— ๋‚ด์šฉ๋ฌผ์„ ๋„ฃ๋“  barricade๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๋“  ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“์„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

2017๋…„, ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋…ธ๋™๋‹น ํ›„๋ณด์—๊ฒŒ ์˜์„์„ ์žƒ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” later ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋กœๆŠ•็‹ฑ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. But that wasn't the worst thing to happen that year. ๊ทธํ•ด ๊ฐ€์„,ไป–ๅ’Œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” their eldest son, then 15-year-old Antonio๊ฐ€ ์•” ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Œ์„ revealed. (๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ํšŒ๋ณต๋œ, Antonio์™€ his younger brother Alberto๋Š” since ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ณผ ์ผ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.) ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ๋„, ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ that summer Antonio์˜ ํ™”ํ•™์š”๋ฒ• ๋์„ celebrateํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ vacation์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. So when Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg๊ฐ€ 2018๋…„ ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ job์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, "we could say to the boys, โ€˜Do you want to go back and live in the place weโ€™ve just holidayed in?โ€™"

ํ™”์ฐฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์ธ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” idea๋Š” clearly "๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ „ํˆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋…ผ์Ÿํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ " back ์˜๊ตญ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” appealed. Yet it meant jumping from the frying pan into the fireโ€”ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด 2016๋…„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ sway๋ฅผ helpํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ญ๋Œ€๋“ค์˜ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ damageํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฏธ์–€๋งˆ์—์„œๅ…ถ platform์ด ๋กœํž์•ผ ์†Œ์ˆ˜์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ violence๋ฅผ inciteํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ preventํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ failedไธ€ๅฎถๅธ์— joinํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€”which led to thousands of deaths and over 700,000 people fleeing.

ํด๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ changeํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  convinced๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด Facebook์— joinํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  insistsํ•œ๋‹ค. But, importantly, he also holds a strong commitment to free speechโ€”even when itโ€™s offensiveโ€”rooted in his liberal upbringing in the pre-internet era. ์ •๋ถ€์—์„œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” then-Home Secretary Theresa May์™€ state surveillance online์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด repeatedly clashed, and he is uneasy now reading about British police making 30 arrests a day for allegedly offensive social media posts.

It clearly bothers him that the loudest voices arguing for free speech today are not liberals but figures like Reform UK leader Nigel Farageโ€”who recently criticized age verification on social media meant to shield children from legal but harmful content like pornographyโ€”and US Vice President JD Vance. "There is nothing I find more stomach-churning," Clegg says, "than the brazen hypocrisy of Trump administration members flying first-class to Europe to pontificate about defending free expression, then flying back to intimidate and bully their opponents." He notes that itโ€™s in the US, not Europe, where foreign students feel pressured to sanitize their social media profiles to avoid deportation. Still, he warns that if crackdowns on so-called online harmsโ€”content that is odious but not illegalโ€”become too broad, they will be exploited politically. "The Farages of this world will get more of a hearing the more imprecise these boundaries are."

Despite his libertarian leanings, Silicon Valley was a culture shock. In an industry fixated on competition from China, Europe barely registeredโ€”the only British presence he noticed was...Many people asked about Harry and Meghan, a topic he regards with "shoulder-shrugging indifference." While his book is often very funnyโ€”such as describing Musk joining an AI summit via video link from his private jet like "a hostage video shot on the Death Star," or former culture secretary Nadine Dorries demanding he remove a controversial tweet, apparently unaware that Meta doesnโ€™t own Twitter (now X)โ€”Clegg quickly learned to avoid making jokes at work. One ice-breaker about not bringing your "authentic self" to the office was met with stony silence.

Though he enjoyed exploring the outdoors with his sons, he found Silicon Valley "cloyingly conformist," despite its reputation for radical disruption. "Everyone wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, listens to the same podcasts, and follows the same trends. Itโ€™s a place built on intense herd-like behavior."

Even as an outsider, Clegg still believes technology is a force for good. His book is a plea to maintain the free flow of information and money across borders at a time when barriers are going up. But it also addresses claims that social media has made people angrier, less informed, and unhappier. In true centrist fashion, he argues the reality is more nuanced: "You donโ€™t just turn on your phone, scroll, and suddenly have your neural pathways rewired to think and feel things you never did before."

He wishes Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves would take bigger risks. "What theyโ€™ll learn, as I did, is you only get one shot at it."

Clegg contends that the evidence linking social media to childrenโ€™s mental health is weaker than often suggested, noting that some troubled teens find comfort online. Still, he acknowledges this isnโ€™t always the case for vulnerable individuals. In 2021, a whistleblower leaked internal Instagram research indicating that many girls already struggling with issues like body image felt social media made their difficulties worse.

He supports calls for