this year s tokyo olympics. this is according to a study by world athletics. it looked at the deluge of disturbing abuse on twitter as female athletes were subjected to sexist, racist, transphobic, and homophobic remarks, plus unfounded doping accusations. many of these posts warranted intervention from social media platforms. and the online abuse of female olympians is just one reason many have been criticizing social media platforms. a facebook whistleblower you ll remember is asking congress to step in and do something, and n then just last week a bipartisan group of ten states attorneys general launched an investigation into instagram s effect on teenagers. let s bring in new york university s social psychologist jonathan hite who has been collecting research on the relationship between the mental health of teenage girls and social media, his latest piece for the atlantic is titled the dangerous experience on teen
as well as people here on the streets people very much believe that there is a an anti russian western campaign going on which includes the western sanctions as well as these doping accusations and now of course these new accusations. against russia as well but not everyone buys into that story emily and i d like to just play a sound bite now for our viewers to highlight one of those views we spoke with a bill brower a kremlin critic and author this is what he had to say i want to play it and then get your reaction there after. it has to create these vicious circumstances for traders and they did that with alexander litvinenko the man who was murdered in london with polonium. back ten years ago you know more than ten years ago and and they join up with other people all over the world there this is the this is the for anybody who is a trader. the most harsh punishment and doesn t matter whether they re a foreign country or russia this is the kind of thing that happens to traders.
could learn how to administer performance enhancing drugs and the results were documented in scientific essays survivors germany s public broadcaster a.r.d. put those allegations to chen directly you were trying to speak with the chinese olympic committee at the ministry of sports about the doping accusations that request is met with sites like thirty and twenty twelve chen china china s former editor lympics doctor commented on the use of doping substances the united states the soviet union and friends we re all using them so we did as well. judy engine is convinced that china is still doping its athletes continuing the program introduced in the one nine hundred eighty s. leaning is now a millionaire sports entrepreneur in china for the two thousand and eight games he was brought in for a high wire act during the opening ceremony in beijing young way dong says
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shows that there s some real hurdles ahead to try to make this law work. greyson says this really is a sea change among the president s core constituents. as numbers go, john, in that survey, those aren t the only ones the white house is probably concerned about. no. obama care is just one of the headlines. just a couple of other very troubling numbers. one in five people who say that they voted for president obama last year say if they had to do it again today they wouldn t vote for him. nearly half say if they could, they d recall him. but as bad as those numbers sound, they re rosy compared to how they feel about congress including republicans in congress who only get 19% support. so as we look ahead to next november a troubling as obama care could be for democrats, those numbers for republicans could be even worse, shep. john roberts in atlanta. okay. something lighter. remember back when we were covering lance armstrong s doping accusations all the time? i wondered aloud