Editorial: Help protect the internet’s ‘kid influencers’

“Kidfluencers.”

That’s the term in the online world for children and teens with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service through their appearances on social media.

The compensation offered by such major social media platforms as TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram for users who gain enough followers to be called true influencers is way more than kids’ stuff.

The popular act of of parents sharing photos or videos of their children on platforms has grown in the hands of some enterprising parents into a cottage industry that generates