no sound on that video feed, the feet was barel intelligible and the eventually in the middle o proceedings it cut out entirely without media access was completely cut off to this trial. that was how the latest tria for russia s main opposition leader, alexei navalny began today. navalny is already serving a long term prison sentence in russia following this latest trial that they are putting it through. he could face another 30 years behind bars. in a statement posted to socia media by his allies, his colleagues today, mr. navaln says that the decision to clos the trial to the public was a, quote, sign of fear by putin navalny told his supporter that he, is. quote, scared of what i have t say. and, in all honesty it is pretty good assessment putin probably is scared o him. in that same message navalny also announced the start o what is basically a politica campaign to try to turn th russian public against russia war in ukraine
watch. independent researchers tell us again and again that they have been asking for that data in they have not been able to get full access two that data. that means we don t even fully understand how bad some of thes harms may be which kids may vie most at risk. so he saying we don t know yet how fully detrimental socia media is too young people, is that a fair assessment? s. that shocked me. i wasn t aware of that. i wasn t aware i was aware of course that social media is playing games with our youth an our teens and that they are basically leading to addictive behavior in they are psyching them in cyber bullying is going on, twice the amount of depression with more than three hours on social media. i understand the pandemic made it worse. i understand we lost control experience, but i didn t realiz the technological companies tha tik tok into other companies were really obscuring the data. the other point he made huge connected to that is he sees
different than a crimina trial. i wonder what you make of th defense trump s team i mounting, which is not exactly the same defense that trum himself is mounting on socia media. well, it s a familiar defense though, isn t it alex, whether it s a civil case or criminal craze when there s an allegation of sexual assault the whole entire trip about rape victim is that she didn t do something, and that is th defense that is being amounted by council for donald trump in this civil rape and defamation case she didn t scream. she didn t go to the police. she didn t report it immediately. she didn t pursue charge immediately. those are things that we hear, even in criminal cases, as a former prosecutor wh prosecuted sexual battery, sexual sought cases, that always of the questions that were being raised. those are things that we had t dispel during the jury selection process to ensur that you had a fair and partia but alex, that s not a
trial. i wonder what you make of th defense trump s team i mounting, which is not exactly the same defense that trum himself is mounting on socia media. well, it s a familiar defense though, isn t it alex, whether it s a civil case or criminal craze when there s an allegation of sexual assault the whole entire trip about rape victim is that she didn t do something, and that is th defense that is being amounted by council for donald trump in this civil rape and defamation case she didn t scream. she didn t go to the police. she didn t report it immediately. she didn t pursue charge immediately. those are things that we hear, even in criminal cases, as a former prosecutor wh prosecuted sexual battery, sexual sought cases, that always of the questions that were being raised. those are things that we had t dispel during the jury selection process to ensur