Big Tech Compares Addiction to TV

0:00And it's now time for your Daily Hortis News break a production of Fortis Institute. A 20-year-old woman took the stand last week in a landmark trial against YouTube and Metta. In her testimony, it should make every parent blood run cold. This woman, identified only as KGM told the court that she started using social media at the age of six, posted more than 300 YouTube videos before she turned 10, joined Instagram around the age of nine, and says the platform's algorithms and constant notifications kept her hooked. And she links Instagram filters directly to depression, insomnia, self-harm, and body image struggles. Mark Zuckerberg insists kids under 13 are banned from the platform, and the head of Instagram compared heavy use to binge-watching TV, because apparently renaming a problem just makes it disappear. Yeah, no, it doesn't. And speaking of kids, an Institute for Family Studies analysis show young families are voting with their moving trucks and heading to red states.

1:00States that went for Trump in 2024 gained over half a million children under 18 since 2019, while states that went for Kamala Harris saw kids under five dropped from 8.2 to 7.6 million. California loan lost 290,000 kids under the age of five. Turns out, families are preferring freedom in a backyard over that studio apartment and pronoun policy. And that pronoun culture also keeps producing rotten fruit, not to be posted to video of a California protestor, reportedly threatening to kill an activist over her opposition to gender surgeries on children. If your position is just so solid that you need a resort to death threats to defend it, that tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it? In Fairbax County, Virginia, a woman named Stephanie Minter was found stabbed to death at a bus stop on February 23rd. Police arrested a man and charged him with second-degree murder. The man? Well, he's been booked more than 30 times with many cases dropped before prosecution. And the H.S. blasted the county for dismissing charges and ignoring immigration detainers,

2:01while the local sheriff says she just follows orders. That's what happens to innocent people in the system, just continues to recycle violent offenders. Made while in Wyoming, the state Supreme Court struck down two post-doc pro-life laws in a four to one ruling, claiming the state constitution protects a right to abortion. One justice deceptive, calling the laws reasonable and necessary. The attorney general's recrust for a rehearing was rejected in February and proposed constitutional amendments failed to even get introduced during the budget session. And that wraps up today's Fortis News break. I'm Jimmy Hicks. If you want more, you can download Fortis Plus or sign up to become a Fortis insider for exclusive daily content. Both of those things can be done right now at FortisInstitute.org. Also, please don't forget, you can subscribe to Fortis News on your favorite podcast app in order to get these updates daily. And I really wish you would until you friends to do it, rate it five stars, you know, all that good stuff. And until tomorrow, go serve your king.