Members of advocacy group Parents for Safe Online Space rally after a hearing on Capitol Hill in January. The group supports proposed legislation that will hold tech companies accountable for limiting children’s exposure to harmful online content. Erika Layne Salazar
Erika Layne Salazar
Kristin Bride lost her 16-year-old son, Carson, to suicide in 2020. She says shortly before he took his own life he was bullied on the social media site Snapchat.
“Carson received over 100 harassing and sexually explicit texts from his high school classmates through an anonymous messaging app on Snapchat,” Bride says. “The last search on his