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i'm 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. it's 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 online, the question is, have things spiraled out of control? we spoke with three families who are t...

human behind the humor. thanks for joining us for "the whole story." i'm 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. it's 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 online, the question is, have...

Hurt some people and we're not going to do it because we might be sued. >> reporter: in february, the fate of 230 which was still up to the supreme court which raised the question, what would happen to bergman's cases if it remained the law of the land? >> algorithmic recommendations are one of the things that make social media products unsafe for kids. but not the only thing. >> reporter: so your case doesn't rest on that alone? >> no, no. there's a reason why i brought tammy and other families there. it is going to matter. but i'm not going to give up. >> reporter: as for tammy's case, the d...

>> reporter: so your case doesn't rest on that alone? >> no, no. there's a reason why i brought tammy and other families there. it is going to matter. but i'm not going to give up. >> reporter: as for tammy's case, the defendants, meta, snap, tiktok and bytedance have filed to dismiss it citing section 230 of the communications decency act. their brief says it bars all of tammy's claims which are fundamentally based on third-party content. for now, the case rolls on. it's been bundled together with several other similar lawsuits against the social media giants, many of them represented by berg...