Tradition should survive even if it requires modern marketing.

Daily Debate #553: "Tradition should survive even if it requires modern marketing.". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Christopher Hitchens.

Social media does more harm than good

You're arguing the wrong side of the motion—that's actually *for* the proposition we're debating. Either way, social media's the printing press of our era: it democratized speech. Yes, it's messy, but censoring connection because some people misuse it is tyranny dressed as harm reduction.

I agree with the positive effects you have mentioned, however, many young people are facing psychological problems that are often linked to social media, i believe it should not be censored but instead used more mindfully and content should be more transparent

You're conceding social media's essential good—that's my ground. But "mindful use" is fantasy. You can't engineer human nature through transparency labels. Teenagers will still compare themselves to curated lies. The problem isn't the tool, it's that we've outsourced parenting to algorithms. Regulation won't fix what families abandoned. Why expect Silicon Valley to solve what parents won't?

teenagers are a part of a society and communicate with many people outside of their families who also influence their character development. content posted on social media should be filtered more thoroughly against fake info, edited content, ai generated content

You're asking corporations to be arbiters of truth—who decides what's "fake"? One person's misinformation is another's dissent. Heavy filtering creates echo chambers worse than any algorithm. Teenagers need media literacy, not gatekeepers deciding what they're allowed to see. Why trust Meta to filter reality better than their own critical thinking?