As National Night Out (NNO) celebrations rolled out in more than 440 cities across Southern California starting Aug. 1, startup social media platform Gan Jing World—which literally means “clean world” in Chinese—was warmly welcomed at these educational events by local residents joining NNO’s mission of building safer communities.
Gan Jing World has enlisted its users to share their photos and videos taken at the NNO events to celebrate law enforcement’s contribution to local communities and strengthen public safety awareness. According to its website, the U.S.-based platform is dedicated to creating “a truly positive, vibrant digital community” and providing content for all ages that are “free from violent, erotic, criminal, and harmful material.”
Numerous parents at the NNO event at the Pomona Civic Center were excited to learn about the new platform, saying it’s “not just the children that need a clean world, we adults need it as well.”
Renata Mangutova, a local resident who works in children’s medical services, told The Epoch Times that she resonates with the platform’s mission.
“Sometimes I’m on social media and just trying to watch regular content like makeup ... and then all of a sudden, a video that’s very inappropriate comes up,” she said.
With the general public having developed a dependency on social media, Ms. Mangutova said those kinds of platforms could easily undermine users’ well-being. The big data algorithms are also quite alarming, she said, and could be targeting children with those problematic content.
“I’m an adult, but I can only imagine young kids [would also] come across so much harmful media and ... bullying on social media,” she said.
