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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...

Californias age bill. >> young people have suffered greatly, emotionally and mentally. the bill itself is designed to make sure that the way a child interacts with these apps, its designed with the highest privacy and safety settings available, so things like 24-hour scroll would be 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 and occasional lobbyist at the state capital, unafraid to tel...

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...

Who loved jennifer. >> it hurt. it hurt a lot. >> unrequited partly because for some reason, even though hed been arrested, paul wasnt entering a plea, which is what this was all about. candlelight vigils outside of pauls hookah lounge by jennifers friends and family. >> we decided to stand in front of his establishment every night until he made his plea. >> eventually, no surprise, paul did plead not guilty. and prosecutor chuck gillingham found himself sifting through the records of a two-year...

Sweet talking and parading you around and wanting to introduce you to everybody. it gets me loving him and admiring him that he admires me, and then it makes me trust his opinion and what he says about me and thinks about me so then as soon as he gets to that point, he flips it and calls me ugly, fat, a gold digger. >> by the way, the person shes talking to is hisham ghanma. one of the brothers he told police she and jennifer were afraid of. here she was confiding in him. mind you, its a phone c...

Opinion and what he says about me and thinks about me so then as soon as he gets to that point, he flips it and calls me ugly, fat, a gold digger. >> by the way, the person shes talking to is hisham ghanma. one of the brothers he told police he and jennifer were afraid. here she was confiding in him. mind you, its a phone conversation that was recorded a few months before the fire, but then she was not happy about paul, not at that point, anyway. >> i have pictures of the damage that he did to a...

Went to one the day of the fire, as a matter of fact. so why did people who fought so much stay together for so long. there was an audio recording of jennifer herself. gillingham got hold of it. listen to her explanation. >> he wins your heart so the first couple of months is amazing. sweeps you off your feet. candles everywhere, flowers, not money items but just romancing, sweet talking and parading you around and wanting to introduce you to everybody. it gets me loving him and admiring him tha...

Me and thinks about me so then as soon as he gets to that point, he flips it and calls me ugly, fat, a gold digger. >> by the way, the person shes talking to is hisham ghanma. one of the brothers he told police she and jennifer were afraid of. here she was confiding in him. mind you, its a phone conversation that was recorded a few months before the fire, but then she was not happy about paul, not at that point, anyway. >> i have pictures of the damage that he did to all of my furniture. he kick...

Admiring him that he admires me, and then it makes me trust his opinion and what he says about me and thinks about me so then as soon as he gets to that point, he flips it and calls me ugly, fat, a gold digger. >> by the way, the person shes talking to is hisham ghanma. remember, hes one of the brothers paul told police he and jennifer were afraid of, but here she was in confiding in him. mind you, its a phone conversation that was recorded a few months before the fire, but then she was not happ...