i m anderson cooper. you may have heard the u.s. surgeon general issued a warning that social media carries what he called a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescence. it s something all of us who are parents are worried about. because of a law passed in the mid-1990s, social media companies are shielded from almost all responsibility for the content their users post, no matter how untrue or harmful it may be. but now with billions of people online, the question is, have things spiraled out of control? we spoke with three families who are taking on some of the biggest social media companies in an uphill legal battle in an effort to change the way the internet works. some of the topics in the next hour including eating disorders and suicide and can be disturbing to watch. good morning. are you getting on, mom? yeah, let s get on. reporter: a tour bus through washington in spring is typically full of kids. oh, my. reporter
human behind the humor. thanks for joining us for the whole story. i m anderson cooper. you may have heard the u.s. surgeon general issued a warning that social media carries what he called a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescence. it s something all of us who are parents are worried about. because of a law passed in the mid-1990s, social media companies are shielded from almost all responsibility for the content their users post, no matter how untrue or harmful it may be. but now with billions of people online, the question is, have things spiraled out of control? especially when it comes to kids. we spoke with three families who are taking on some of the biggest social media companies in an uphill legal battle in an effort to change the way the internet works. we want to mention some of the topics in the next hour including eating disorders and suicide and can be disturbing to watch. good morning. are you getting on, mo
angeles. and new day continues and new day continues right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the worldment of it s friday, july 15th and i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. the secret service denies doing anything malicious after a government watchdog report claimed the agency erased text messages from january 5th and january 6th and that it did so after oversight investigators had requested them. the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. it s the latest example, though, of the agency assigned to protect the president coming under scrutiny for its actions on january 6th. joining me now is donald trump s former acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. he later served as special envoy to northern ireland but resigned from the post following the capitol attack. thank you so
non-violent offender. and that s it for us today. the lead with jake tapper starts right now for the first time in the history of the united states of america and immediate family member of the current president is a convicted felon, believed starts right now hunter biden, guilty on all charges in the federal gun case against him, his father s speaking at the gun safety event just hours after did he say anything about it? now, biden, the president is rushing to delaware to be by his son side. so we ll hunter biden now had the prison and for how long? plus trump has a gun situation of his own sources telling cnn the former president fessed up about his weapon in florida, which he is legally not allowed to possess as a convicted in felon, but does donald trump plan to hand the gun over cnn s digging into what he might face if he does not. plus leaked messages reported from the leader of the terrorist group hamas, revealing that he thinks hamas is benefiting from the deaths
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