Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage

Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned digital nutritionist".

These two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and algorithmic resistance, are among a number of recommendations from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an associate professor at University College London and a leading expert in digital literacy.