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contribute to rising mental health problems in kids. they are going after tiktok, instagram, they are going after facebook, snapchat and youtube demanding accountability and unspecified financial damages for the rising costs of mental health services. the county offers to young people. here with me now to discuss is joe khan, solicitor of bucks county, pennsylvania. i am glad you are here. thank you for joining us. this has been called a kind of david versus goliath sort of case. you are going against some pretty huge social media giants, but you say it s worth t tell us why. yeah, thanks for having me, laura. and i think you put it exactly right. it is worth it and it s time for someone to step up. these companies may be goliaths, but someone needs to stand up for all of the parents and all the kids that have been suffering for so long. we are on the front lines of a mental health crisis that is impacting our youth more than anyone else, and we have for
most of these folks are not on tablets, on their phones, i don t know if they are on tiktok. maybe on tiktok, but are they son snapchat. so i think that is part of it as well, where and i think and certainly the technology companies, some of these companies have manipulated that point, that fact. the fact that and they kind of throw a bone here and there to do a little bit of self-regulation, but they know. i mean, we heard from whistleblowers. we heard from time to time that there was knowledge internally. if you think about a teenager in particular, you are the most vulnerable in terms of your sense of self. that s when you are trying to development from a developmental perspective. your sense of belonging. i mean, so it preys on some of the worst parts of being a teenager, which i remember well and it was miserable. so i hope it does mean regulation and i hope it means we get more educated about the impacts that social media is having. you talk about the pacing of technolo
county. more importantly, first, i m a dad. i have two boys who are 8 and 11. they are at that age where they have been getting curious about these platforms because that s what their friends are doing. as parents we are struggling to limit screen time to tell our kids how to navigate this world that s very different than what we grew up in. and now we are learning that these companies have been manipulating all of us, especially our kids. and so there is a really powerful drug that is at the heart of this lawsuit. it s not oxycodone or tobacco. it s dopamine. it s right in our own bodies. it s in the brains of our children and this lawsuit is about how these algorithms, these ivrs have been used and created to make money at the expense of our kids. you know, both snapchat and google, snapchat saying nothing is more important to us than the well being of our community. we are constantly evaluating how
they posted on social media. particularly, given that they posted on other platforms. and they re very easily accept who s to say that teenagers are posting anything different on tiktok than they are on facebook, on instagram, on twitter, on snapchat. these things can all be accessed by the chinese government. i think, potentially, what we have, here is to recognize the problem. and, we over share on social media. we can be manipulated through. that we have seen what skill propaganda threatened through social media platform. but, we kind of miss diagnose the problem. here we say to china when actually it s kind of everybody. yes, but in this, case the company,, obviously it s owned by china? so, in terms of the timing, the chinese spy balloon over the u.s. couldn t have come at a worse time in terms of stoking those fears. how do you think that might factor into the pressure to ban or sell tiktok? i think, enormously. , and it s worth saying, a little over 12 hours to, go