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That recommended isis videos to users effectively helping to spread their terror message. >> today, the supreme court is hearing a case that could profoundly change the way you and i use the internet -- >> fundamentally disrupt the internet. >> reshape the internet as we know it. >> reporter: the court was being asked to decide if section 230 should still shield tech companies from liability or if the algorithms created to promote and recommend third-party content to users is a kind of editorial...

Upsetting content for project is deeply illogical. he wrote that its very important to him that everything the company builds is safe and good for kids. >> we have about 1700 clients. theyre children that took their life after being bullied online. we also have cases involving children that have developed eating disorders, children that have developed depression or sexually abused and exploited online. >> reporter: thats a lot of different things to put under the umbrella of harm done by these c...

Cyber bullied three separate times, the last time as a freshman in high school. >> i want to make sure you have this -- >> reporter: emmy and these other young women are pushing for another bill that would forbid social media platforms from knowingly designing addictive algorithms or facilitating drug and gun sales, among other things. >> i want to ask that you support this because this is the kind of protection that 13-year-old me needed. >> reporter: ahead -- >> i put your birthday in there. >...

Disabled, things like letting an adult dm a minor if the minor does not follow an adult back. turning off location. >> reporter: emmy is a college student, unafraid to tell her own cyber bullying story. >> i started searching up my classmates profiles and scrolled down and notice that every once in awhile on multiple kids profiles were pictures that kids had secretly taken of me. and so there were pictures calling me fat, calling me ugly, calling me stupid, saying that i was this, that and every...

Of, theyre necessary to organize and navigate the internet itself. >> there are good algorithms and there are bad algorithms -- >> reporter: i think they argue that theres no such thing. that the algorithm does its work which is organize information and return information that youve requested. >> you can organize information algorithmically and not subject children to materials they dont want to hear. they hide behind section 230 to not make the kind of decisions that every other well-run mature...

Accountable for. >> so meta, which is the parent company of facebook and instagram, they filed a brief in support of google, and the lawyers argue that so-called targeted recommendations reflect nothing more than how online services organize and display content. theyre arguing that these algorithms, that you say cause harm, that they should get rid of, theyre necessary to organize and navigate the internet itself. >> there are good algorithms and there are bad algorithms -- there are safe algori...

Readmission rates drop and clinical capacity can nearly double thanks to digital disease self-management tools.

Immunity that says you cant take action against a big tech company under almost all circumstances. >> reporter: the case was gonzalez v. google. the family of a young woman killed in the 2015 terrorist attack in paris alleges that google, owner of youtube, designed an algorithm that recommended isis videos to users effectively helping to spread their terror message. >> today, the supreme court is hearing a case that could profoundly change the way you and i use the internet -- >> fundamentally d...

>> stop pushing these algorithms on kids. thats messed up. you cant do that. >> reporter: democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut agrees, and he has a bill. >> the kids online safety act says you need to design your products so they dont cause these harms. your product design are addictive in their effects. and you can stop it. >> reporter: blumenthal recently reintroduced the bipartisan legislation with republican marsha blackburn of tennessee after congress failed to act on it las...

>> what is your sense of how much social media companies recognize their role in creating algorithms that suck these young children in quick >> people now have a understanding of of rhythms in general, the recommendation engines are drawing information based on what you engage with to push it more on you, if you get into things that are harmful to yourself or others, is going to feed you more of that, a real concern going into the world of ai, tiktok is shown how profitable it can be. >> probabl...