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Jake Auchincloss: “These companies, not just TikTok, but Metta and Twitter and…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on the future of TikTok

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

My oldest is four and a half. The way I see it, I got about five years to rein in social media corporations before my kids start using this stuff. Because These companies, not just TikTok, but Metta and Twitter and Twitch and Reddit and Discord, they are attention fracking American children. They are monetizing their attention spans and it is sabotaging mental health and American youth sense of self in society. (00:51–01:01)

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Asserts that multiple social media companies are exploiting the attention spans of American children.

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