About this episode
Ralph discusses Meta's legal issues regarding children's mental health and highlights an impeachment symposium.
Ralph welcomes Haley Hinkle, policy counsel at Fairplay to tell us about how a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for harming children’s mental health and safety, violating state law. Then when present highlights from last week’s symposium on impeachment, featuring Dennis Kucinich, CIA whistleblower, Jeffrey Sterling, Public Citizen co-president, Rob Weissman, GW law dean Alan Morrison and many more. Haley Hinkle is policy counsel at Fairplay , where she advocates for laws and regulations that protect children and teens’ autonomy and safety online. Ms. Hinkle has also worked on issues at the intersection of government surveillance technology and civil liberties. We saw a lot of that in the discovery for these cases and other lawsuits that are currently being brought against the companies—that they have a lot of internal research where they’re very specific with their features. And also their safety features. They test them to make sure safety features aren’t too effective. They don’t reduce too much screen time. And this is completely overwhelming for young brains. And it’s completely overwhelming for families that are trying to make the choice between protecting…
People in this episode
Host: Ralph Nader
Guest: Haley Hinkle
Topics covered
- Meta
- children's mental health
- impeachment
- government surveillance
- civil liberties
Keywords
- Meta
- impeachment
- Haley Hinkle
- children's safety
- government surveillance
- civil liberties
- New Mexico jury
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fairplay, Public Citizen, CIA
Places: New Mexico
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