The Dangers Of Social Media Content- Part 1

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Social media is full of wonderful opportunities for people to connect. It is also filled with people who push identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. Imran Ahmed, Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, joins Dr. Phil on his Phil in the Blanks podcast to discuss psychological malignancies on social media – and how to protect our children against them. Phil in the Blanks drops new episodes every Tuesday. Listen and subscribe today. ●Parents Guide: https://counterhate.com/tiktok-parents-guide/ ●Deadly By Design: https://counterhate.com/research/deadly-by-design/ ●For more information: http://drphilintheblanks.com/ ●Interested in advertising on the show? Visit: https://www.advertisecast.com/PhilintheBlanks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	They're just clicking and clicking and clicking.
0:02.9	And it's them in this content.
0:04.3	They're so vulnerable.
0:06.4	It is chilling.
0:07.7	It horrifies me the idea of a child being alone
0:10.3	exposed to this content slowly being dragged into an illness.
0:14.6	They are facial diseases.
0:23.7	Okay, mate, thank you for coming to fill in the blanks again.
0:28.0	We're talking about something today that I think is critically,
0:33.3	critically important to the point that I think it may be the number one
0:38.8	challenge, the number one crisis that our kids are facing today.
0:44.2	We're behind a power curve as adults, whether it's your kids or your grandkids.
0:49.8	This is a chance to close that gap.
0:52.4	And I'm going to tell you why in just a minute when I tell you who our guest is,
0:56.2	very special guest in a recent study, the Center for countering digital hate,
1:03.4	CCDH, set out to test TikTok's algorithm after hearing concerns from parents
1:10.2	about what their children are seeing on that platform.
1:12.4	Now, this is a nonprofit organization.
1:15.0	They say they set up eight new accounts in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
1:21.4	And they listed the user as 13 years old.
1:25.2	The youngest allowed by TikTok.
1:27.1	Now, we know there are younger than that that get on TikTok,
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