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im anderson cooper. you may have heard the u.s. surgeon general issued a warning that social media carries what he called a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescence. its something all of us who are parents are worried about. because of a law passed in the mid-1990s, social media companies are shielded from almost all responsibility for the content their users post, no matter how untrue or harmful it may be. but now with billions of people on...

human behind the humor. thanks for joining us for "the whole story." im anderson cooper. you may have heard the u.s. surgeon general issued a warning that social media carries what he called a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescence. its something all of us who are parents are worried about. because of a law passed in the mid-1990s, social media companies are shielded from almost all responsibility for the content their users post, no mat...

All those years when you were doing treatment where she was getting that information? >> no. no. and that makes me just plum stupid, i think. you know, because honestly, i thought we had things in place through our government that would protect children on this level. i didnt think that was legal. i went online to do my own research to find out what was going on when ceecee said it affected her. i saw images of thigh gaps and bridge gaps. and someone had wrote fat, scraped with a knife fat acros...

I saw images of thigh gaps and bridge gaps. and someone had wrote fat, scraped with a knife fat across their stomach. you know what my daughter did when she got home from north carolina after being there for three months, eight hours away from me, thats what she did. she carved fat on her stomach. at that minute, my mama bear, i was like, oh, my gosh, this is the most evil shit ive ever seen in my life. >> reporter: so candace and ceecee decided to sue instagram. tony and her son mark heard abou...