From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

For years, social media companies have relied on an impenetrable First Amendment protection to shield them from legal claims that their products are dangerous to children.

But now, a new cluster of plaintiffs are trying a different tact.

Today, my colleague Cecilia Kong explains why these lawsuits pose an existential threat to social media giants

and how those companies are likely to defend

themselves.

It's Thursday, January 29th.

Trouble for TikTok as a group of attorney generals in several states, look into whether the

video sharing platform TikTok is harmful for children.

Internal research at Facebook found that its photo sharing app, Instagram, can harm the mental

health of millions of young users.

Research shows 95% of teens are on social media. More than a third say they're on constantly.

For young people, the TikTok platform is like digital nicotine. One chart showed 21% of girls in the

U.S. felt somewhat worse or much worse after using Instagram.

Social media taught me things about myself that I didn't even know, like how I had an ugly

nose or how my weight wasn't the proper weight.

Social media said the solution to these things wasn't self-acceptance.

Social media said the solution to these things was products self-acceptance. Social media said the solution to these things

was products and sometimes even surgeries.

Unregulated social media is a weapon of mass destruction

that continues to jeopardize the safety, privacy, and well-being

of all American youth.

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