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Theres lot of news to get to. Good morning. Very big day in washington and aross the country. Yes, very big day for washington. Former President Donald Trump set to appear in a washington, d. C. , courtroom on charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election and hang on to power, this is his third arraignment in four months. New overnight, barricades going up outside the Federal Courthouse, the Secret Service has done a walk through and Law Enforcement is monitoring potential threats. Trumps forme...

Wed see "seventeen" magazine, but this is -- these girls, these kids are on this platform through the night. on their phones. its a complete sort of immersing in a very unhealthy outlook about ones self. >> this is the something the company found thats somewhat valid, there were addictive traits, they found that actually the young women who were most prone to serious mental health effects also had the hardest time putting their phones down and getting off the platform. self-control. a really har...

Facebook. they understand that faucis life is in danger because of the lies that mark zuckerberg makes off the conspiracy theories he churns up whetherup, whether itt covid, whether its about fauci, whether its about january the 6th. >> yeah, there is a group of senators, richard blumenthal and marsha blackburn, mark zuckerberg said this when confronted about the impact of facebook and instagram on teenagers, the research weve seen is using social apps connecting with have positive mental health...

Suicidal ideation and things like that. jeff joins us now. >> we talked about it yesterday. weve seen the culture yesterday we talked about how we gave a talk at a college five years ago and the dean of students, how is everything going? we thought they would say, you know, the kids get to class late or this drug problem or that, they said, no, its insta gram, our girls but also guys, facing anxiety, depression and suicide al ideation. that was five years ago. this study echoes what you said yes...

To look like that, though abs, white teeth, presented through filters, they dont realize that, lot of houses, vacations are paid for by someone else, its -- >> these young influencers who are impacting these young girls theyre getting feedback, theyre getting free clothes, theyre getting free stuff, i mean, facebook has an age limit, right, 18, is it, jeff? >> you have to be 13 on the platform. >> instagram? >> 13 for both of them. >> i have family members who put on, who have been put on instag...

Bring in a psychiatrist, an assistant professor of psychiatry at harvard medical school and director of the three east unit at mcclain hospital. doctor, i want to ask? if you are seeing anything reflected in the "wall street journal" report about instagram and its impact on young girls in the work you are doing. i wonder how you treat an anxious, depressed teen boy or girl, especially a girl, they leave and theyre right back on instagram. so all the work thats been done through the fight, theyre...

>> doesnt care whats bad for america. >> just got to get more money. >> he doesnt want to do it because he wants to make even more money. >> five bathtubs of money, he needs six. in a statement a facebook spokesman writes, certain partisan divisions in our society have been growing for many decades long before platforms like facebook even existed. >> just made it worse and led it to an insurrection. >> so that reporting is from technology reporter for the wall street journal, who also co-authore...

You said is this stuff can have for a certain group of users, particularly young women it can have a harmful effect, its a really hard problem, its imbedded into the product mechanics. they didnt study these things for a long time. its understandable. you wouldnt assume that social media would have an obvious impact on mental health or the other pressures on teenagers. what they did, they started finding pretty ugly things, up to and including that people who told them they had thinking about ha...

What can facebook be doing, okay, its identified the problem as that internal research showed that you exposed yesterday, what reasonably now this is genie is out of the bottle, so many teenagers on instagram, what should facebook do? >> one of the things thats the backdrop to this is instagram is working on a platform for preteens right now, some questions about that at the moment, but aside from that, some of the internal research suggested that they should refrain from certain type of content...

Welcome back. we have quick headlines for you now. a rough landing at the albuquerque balloon festival. one of the gigantic hot air balloons was tangled in the power lines there. no one was hurt. but power was briefly knocked out for about 3,000 homes there. and the lapd now searching for the man in this instagram video seen stalking a police officer while holding a gun. investigators say that the video is not a threat. its a promotional stunt by a 90s rap group trying to make a comeback. one ...