NPR’s Rob Schmitz asks Amanda Raffoul of Harvard’s School of Public Health about a new estimate of the amount of money social media companies make on advertisements to users 17 and younger.
ROB SCHMITZ, HOST:
What’s holding social media companies back from fully curbing content that’s harmful to children? After all, the stakes are high. Last month Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn shared what parents told her after she started looking into the matter.
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MARSHA BLACKBURN: Their children had committed suicide. Their children had met a drug dealer. Their children had met a pedophile. Their child had met a
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