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Now our nation faces a mental health crisis, it is partly aggravated by the pandemic, the isolation and anxiety and also by the internet and by the tech platforms that drive toxic content at children. as a result of these black box algorithms that nobody understands. literally nobody understands because the tech platforms want to keep them secret. we're trying to upgrade the law and update it to give parents tools to have greater visibility as to what their children are doing and to give parents and children tools to protect them against some of the bullying and eating disorder content and eve...

0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are clai...

Safe for kids. they're trying to empower parents to implement parental controls. do you think parental controls, which is not a silver bullet here, would be a good solution? >> i think it should be looked into, but more important, will the world take stock of where we are? it could be used for so much good, but in the moment it's being spoiled because there is too much harmful content. so what we need to do is collectively look at the data we have -- actually, to be honest, that data is made mostly by the tech platforms -- that is the proper academic research that needs to be done so we better...