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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 taking on s...

Internet works. it has to stop. >> there's about a half a dozen draft bills up that try to deal with this issue. senator josh hawley is leading a charge. he has a proposal that bans for social media for all kids in america under age 16. a blanket policy. >> how you enforce that, anyone's guess. let's go to hadley heath manning from the independent women's for rim. i'm talking to hadley in her more important position, as a mom. how you police something like this. what do you think, hadley? >> well, i think parents have a very critical role to play here regardless of what our government leaders ...

Crimes. it's increasing all across the country, anti-black people. anti-asian -- there's no accountability, is there? >> this is one of the things that people who have run websites have understood for a long time which is that for conversations to happen you have to have some level of moderation because otherwise the loudest, nastiest people take over the conversation and they don't let anybody else speak. so, you know, this is one of the paradoxes of how the internet works. and unfortunately, you know, twitter's approach to moderation is not that they'll have moderation policies, their approa...

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Keep up with crypto. >> lawmakers struggle to understand cryptocurrency and don't know if to write special rules to regulate crypto. >> i heard stories about people who invest in cryptocurrency and they lose everything. this is huge economic issue we should be paying more attention to. >> we have senators and members of the house that don't know how the internet works, it is hard for them to grasp some concepts when there are more basic items they don't understand. >> nft is a form of crypto. >> do you know what nonfungible