Wired for Trouble: Kara Swisher on Big Tech

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today, we explore the perils of social media on kids and the way families are fighting back against big tech. First, how the experience of Candace Wuest and her daughter CeCe show the consequences of social media on kids. Then, journalist Kara Swisher takes us through the long view on big tech companies, and finally, Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talks us through his potential solution: the Kids Online Safety Act. This is a companion podcast to the CNN Original “Wired for Trouble,” debuting in June on The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. Past episodes of The Whole Story are available to stream now on Max. Kara Swisher is the host of two podcasts: On with Kara Swisher and Pivot. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listeners be advised.
0:02.5	Today's episode includes descriptions of childhood eating disorders and suicide.
0:09.4	Full disclosure, the coveted tech when I was a teenager was a beeper.
0:15.6	Pagers, utilitarian, pocket-sized, attached to the the hip could deliver really simple messages.
0:21.4	I mean, like practically Morse code.
0:24.0	143 meant, I love you.
0:27.3	477 for best friends forever.
0:30.5	420 for...
0:31.5	Well, I mean, you get the point.
0:35.8	Obviously, things are different now.
0:38.0	Smartphones and social media, especially after the pandemic, play a central and frankly
0:42.7	defining role for a generation of digital natives.
0:46.4	One that a new generation of parents is starting to seriously question.
0:51.3	When Cecilia was younger, she was the star of the show at all times. She was
0:57.3	always flip-flatten around the house and her fashion and her heels and her feather bowers and
1:03.1	always just very much expressing herself. And I met a few of these parents while reporting for a
1:09.3	CNN original airing this Sunday.
1:11.4	It's called Wired for Trouble.
1:13.5	In it, I talked to Candace Weist.
1:15.9	Her daughter, C.C. just graduated from high school this year.
1:18.7	And I was like, oh, okay, Instagram's like the Facebook that's more marketed for kids.
1:25.1	That's really what I was thinking.
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