It's Thursday, February 1st, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

House and Senate committees meet regularly and usually we don't talk about those hearings.

But the exception comes when something important happens and something

important happened yesterday. It happened in a hearing of the Senate

Judiciary Committee and it happened as the hearing that lasted about three and a half

hours was concerned with the dangers of

social media to America's teenagers, children, and young people. The hearing was

held before the Senate Judiciary Committee and that's one of the most powerful of all the committees in the

United States Senate and in this case it really did make headline news the

hearing that was held yesterday because of all things it occasioned such unexpected developments as Mark Zuckerberg

the CEO of Meta and of course that includes several platforms including

Facebook was asked basically commanded to turn to those gathered there in the hearing

including many grieving families and parents that had given testimony to

face them and offer an apology. He did. Mark Zuckerberg said to those in the room and of course by

television to the nation, quote, I'm sorry for everything you have all been through. No one should

go through the things that your families have suffered, but behind all of that

is a fascinating development and actually one of the biggest issues we could consider from

worldview analysis, important analysis. Analysis is important to every individual, to every Christian, to every

Christian family and to every Christian church. How in the world do we deal with the challenge

of young people and social media.

So before we turn to the hearing, let's just back up for a moment

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