police. we will ask a survivor who knows the answer to that question firsthand. sandra: she will talk about her experience and why the horror in idaho is so familiar to her, including the moment she, like the survivor in idaho, came terrifyingly close to the attacker. america reports rolls into hour two on this monday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington, good day to you, too. the survivor joins us with insight what the surviving students in idaho are likely going through and what could come next. not all that s new at 2:00. sandra: seattle public schools are warning students are in crisis, a habit driving them into depression and turning classrooms into ground 0 for mental health. that habit, social media. john: all new at 2:00, the school district serving more than 50,000 kids is suing big tech companies taking them to court for exploiting the vulnerable brains of youth. 91-page complaint ties tech giants, including
access to that product has to be controlled as much as possible by the parents, by the schools in school hours, but it raises serious constitutional questions when you start to say we are going to sue you for offering a lawful product. sandra: very interesting. this is the facebook whistleblower francis haugen on the company s practices with kids and profits. algorithms are very smart in the sense that they latch on to things that people want to continue to engage with and unfortunately in the case of teen girls and things like self-harm, they develop feedback cycles where children are using instagram to self-sooth but then are exposed to more and more content that makes them hate themselves. there is a pattern of behavior at facebook, facebook choosing to prioritize profits over people. sandra: we all remember that, jonathan. that was a huge statement and if facebook knows that is the case,
wash over you. plenty of elected officials refused to call out the most outlandish conspiracy theories. it is one thing on facebook and it is another thing when those people are now elected officials. social media is a scary place. most unsocialable behavior that, goes to facebook for saying it would do more to control the flow of fake stories and hateful postings. company changed the name to meta but left many who wanted more unsatisfied. because we heard from the facebook whistleblower francis haugen and how the company knows a lot of the ugly stuff that can happen on its platform. facebook said the whistleblower s claims were misleading. it is freedom and speech and people don t want to be muted. but hate speech is not free speech. i swore off facebook and i was so proud of myself and then i learned that they also own instagram and i was like, damn it. the left/right wars played
whistleblower francis haugen who is trying, here s what she said to congress on october 6th. it s just like cigarettes. teenagers don t have good self-regulation. they say explicitly i feel bad when i use instagram, and yet i can t stop. i mean, they re addicted basically. they can t stop. it makes them feel worse, yet they can t stop because it lights up whatever that, you know, addiction center is in their brain, so what needs to happen next? yes, so, first, people have to understand, this is more than an addiction, addiction is between you and the substance. this is not just addiction. this is a social trap. when my kids entered 6th grade, they said to me, dad, everyone is on instagram can i have an account, and i said no. and that was very hard for my son who felt isolated because of it. the companies have put us parents and our kids in this trap. it s not just that the kids are addicted like to tobacco, it s they have set up a social game in which it s bad for everybody,
how you can add comcast business securityedge. plus for a limited time, ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today. bill: two weeks after the facebook whistleblower that said the site was morally bankrupt. others head to washington today with where a senate panel is going to question them how their platforms affect young people. aishah is live on the hill. the field is wide open for these senators and they are not happy with big tech particularly now that they are armed with knowledge that they received from facebook whistleblower francis haugen who told them how big tech s algorithm allow the spread of misinformation and harm children. lawmakers are widening the