Chrissy Teigen Suggests ‘The Government’ Should Shut Down Social Media After 6PM

Former model Chrissy Teigen weighed in on the discourse currently surrounding social media following the temporary ban of TikTok.

The 39-year-old cookbook author said she supports a “ban” of all social media between certain hours of the day, saying this should be instituted by the “government” or an “ethics committee.”

“I personally think that one day there will be the most incredible rule,” Teigen said in a video clip uploaded to her Instagram Stories, according to People. ”I think the government, or some kind of ethics committee — somebody — should shut off social media between 6 p.m and 6 a.m. Leave it all up. Everyone gets to do anything they want, but only between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Shut it off. Done,” she added.

Teigen said she believes life was better before social media took over everyone’s lives.

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“Guys, life was great. Life was awesome before this,” she said. ”I know it’s hard to see it now. But it’s doable. It’s very doable. This doesn’t have to be our lives. And I say this for myself as well because — obviously — I’m on here [social media] right now doing this. But it doesn’t have to define us or be our whole lives,” Teigen said.

The social media influencer has been involved in social media drama in the past, including deleting thousands of old tweets and apologizing for comments she made on X. “My targets didn’t deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor,” she wrote on Medium in 2021. “I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry.”

TikTok restored service on Sunday after the popular social media app briefly went offline on Saturday in response to a new U.S. law that forces its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to be completely divested from TikTok or else be banned in the U.S., as The Daily Wire previously reported.

The ban was initiated as a means of ensuring the security of private information from China. Now Trump is saying he’ll extend the deadline to give the company time to comply with the conditions that have been laid out. 

“I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security,” Trump said. “The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.”