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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing witness Emma Lembke joined "Sunday Night in America" to warn of the "harmful effects" of social media and encourage lawmakers to regulate social media platforms.

A mother told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 14 that her teenage son still took his life ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are proposing new ways to make children safer online while local parents turn to the courts to try and change how social media negatively affects teens.

Clerking, the computer system was pretty rudimentary, in 1993 and 1992. but still, you know, you had to log on and log off. i would imagine now the system is pretty sophisticated given the ability to hack. does any of this add up to you? >> well, the time to find out who the leaker was was immediately after the leak. as this report notes, a lot of these people are temporary employees. they might not even be around. it didnt seem like a really serious effort to find out what had happened. and it ...

0 only reason they are using drugs is because somebody is allowing it. it all boils down to congress. >> hannity: this isnt a fixable problem. were running out of time. you get to give me final grade. what do i get? >> b-minus. >> hannity: why a b-minus? >> i think youre coming in from a different direction. like at davos. >> hannity: laura is next. thanks for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. **. >> laura: im laura, welcome to the "the ingraham angle." we begin with the latest clas...

Skyrocket. alongside being a young woman, i felt my self-image deteriorate as i began to develop harmful eating habits. all of this is not an isolated incident, laura. i being the log off executive director have heard countless stories from young people, how they incurred the harms from social media. unable to largely unplug because of addictive algorithmic systems in place that prioritize maximizing profit over user well being. what were risks here, laura, is a generation of young people who ar...

Porn sites longer with buttons and all that going on. is that legal action? some kind of an agreement to avoid legal action, whats next? >> you know what? i sauce say you have to take two different approaches. from the bottom up to the top down. the bottom up, individuals have to rethink their usage of social media, we need to begin to see communities come together to set boundaries and talk about digital habits and become more conscience. but from the top down, we need to see regulatory action....

Laura Ingraham aims to cut through the Washington chatter to speak directly with unexpected voices and the actual people who are impacted by the news of the...

If a lot of your technology habits are automatic, you may not even be aware of your behavior. Sammy Nickalls, author of Log Off: Self-Help for the Extremely Online, designed a quiz to help you assess your digital habits.

Author Sammy Nickalls guides readers through the practice of digital minimalism which helps strike a balance between being extremely online and extremely offline.