AI & Our Brains + Should Social Media Be Banned for Teens? Instagram Executive's Uncensored Hot Takes | Tara Hopkins

The Art of Being Well · Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 5m

Tara Hopkins, who leads policy work for Instagram at Meta, joins Dr. Will Cole for a candid conversation about raising teenagers in the social media era. They cover Instagram's Teen Accounts feature — the default restrictions on contact, content, and time — the AI tools Meta uses to detect teens who lie about their age, and the supervision tools available to parents. Tara shares her honest take on outright social media bans, why she believes a parent-guided gradual approach works better than a hard cutoff, and practical parenting wisdom from raising her own two teenagers, including why it's…