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"Can't Look Away": New Documentary on Online Safety Examines the Dark Side of Social Media

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Democracy Now!

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4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Can’t Look Away is a new documentary that examines the tragic consequences that the algorithms of Big Tech companies can have on children and teens.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Democracy Now.

0:05.8

Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report.

0:08.8

I'm Amy Goodman.

0:09.7

As we continue with part two of our conversation about a new documentary being released by Jolt today called Can't Look Away.

0:20.0

The co-director is Matthew O'Neill, Laura Marquez-Garrett,

0:23.2

is one of those featured in the film. She's a lawyer with a somewhat new group that's called

0:28.6

Social Media Victims Law Center. It represents 4,000 children at this point and growing.

0:38.3

Matt, we started part one by my asking you about why you did this film.

0:44.5

It is an astounding story.

0:46.6

When you think back to inauguration day, it wasn't the cabinet nominees that were front and center of Trump's inauguration.

0:58.0

It was the big tech CEOs. I mean, people like Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg, Mehta, Beza,

1:06.0

Amazon, Google, all of these guys were front and center. Why? What do they have to gain? And how does that relate to the

1:19.0

suffering of children? Well, if you think about it, just a year earlier, a year before inauguration,

1:25.2

they were all sitting in front of a bipartisan committee that was working

1:29.3

to hold them account for what's happening on social media. And a ban, or sorry, the Kids' Online

1:36.3

Safety Act, which would help protect children, passed in the Senate with a bipartisan coalition

1:41.9

last summer of like 93 to 3. I think there were only

1:45.4

three votes against it. So there's bipartisan willingness to pass reform and change the way

1:52.8

social media works. So when you see all of those social media titans and big tech titans

1:57.7

standing there on inauguration day, they have an incredible amount of interest

2:01.4

about what happens in Washington right now, what regulation does or does not pass, and very

2:06.8

specifically Laura's best situated to talk about this, but how Section 230 of the Federal Communications

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