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Actress Jenna Ortega opens up about her decision to quit social media, highlighting pervasive issues regarding online safety and virtual sexual harassment and abuse.

In an interview on the latest episode of the New York Times podcast “The Interview,” the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actress, when she was only 14 years old, blatantly online through “X,” formerly known as Twitter She said she was sent digitally altered images of herself.

“I hate AI,” Ortega said on the podcast. 'When you're 14 years old and you have to create a Twitter account and you're like, did I like looking at dirty, edited content as a kid? It's corrupt. [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]