Democracy Now! 2026-02-19 Thursday
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
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Headlines for February 19, 2026; “Predatory Tech”: Silicon Valley on Trial in Landmark Youth Social Media Addiction Case; Social Media Addiction: Facebook Whistleblower Says Big Tech Has Known & Ignored Problem for Years; Courts Have Ruled 4,400+ Times That ICE Jailed People Illegally; Despite Rebukes, ICE Keeps Doing It; Former Prince Andrew Arrested in U.K. as Global Fallout from Epstein Files Grows
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.4 | They're making billions and billions of dollars when kids are being harmed. |
| 0:23.6 | They're putting profits over our kids' lives. |
| 0:25.6 | Big Tech on trial, a landmark trial about the harms of youth, social media addiction, |
| 0:31.6 | is taking place in Los Angeles. |
| 0:34.6 | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Wednesday. Parents of children harmed by |
| 0:41.1 | social media have gathered for the trial. Let's give one big cheer for those forgotten, or the kids |
| 0:47.6 | that will never be forgotten. We'll go to Los Angeles to speak with a mother. We'll also talk to Los Angeles to speak with a mother whose 18-year-old daughter died by suicide. We'll also talk to an attorney at the social media victim's law center and Facebook whistleblower Francis Howogan. Then 4,400. |
| 1:13.4 | That's the number of times judges around the country have ruled the Trump administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully. |
| 1:22.9 | We'll speak to a Reuters reporter who broke the story. |
| 1:25.9 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:32.6 | Thank you. speak to a Reuters reporter who broke the story. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:38.7 | The U.S. military is preparing to strike Iran as soon as this weekend, but President Trump |
| 1:43.7 | still has to make the final decision. |
| 1:46.2 | That's according to CNN, which cited a White House source who said Trump is, quote, spending a lot of time thinking about this, unquote. |
| 1:54.8 | On Tuesday, U.S. and Iranian negotiators held indirect talks in Geneva and left without a clear resolution. |
| 2:02.6 | Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is expected to travel to Israel and meet with Prime Minister |
| 2:08.0 | Benjamin Netanyahu later this month to discuss Iran's nuclear program. |
| 2:12.8 | Meanwhile, the U.S. is sending a second aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford to the Middle East, to join the USS Abraham Lincoln, in the U.S. is sending a second aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford to the Middle East, |
| 2:19.1 | to join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf. The USS Gerald Ford Carrier Strike |
| 2:25.2 | Group has been stationed in the Caribbean when the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted its |
| 2:30.8 | president, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife. Iran has long maintained its nuclear program |
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