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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...

California's 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, it's 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 tell her own cyberbullying story. >> i started searching up my classmates' profiles and scrolled down...

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 everything else. >> reporter: she says she was cyber bullied three separate times. the last time as a f...

Who loved jennifer. >> it hurt. it hurt a lot. >> unrequited partly because for some reason, even though he'd been arrested, paul wasn't entering a plea, which is what this was all about. candlelight vigils outside of paul's hookah lounge by jennifer's 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 romance studded with restraining orders, bitter quarrels, scratches, bruises, 911 calls. >> the...