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Jake Auchincloss: “They [social media companies] make $250 billion a year just…”

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

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 38:21

Now, the case that the average American child spends less time outdoors than a federal inmate, that's the social media corporations. And then the final thing, of course, is their money. I mean, They [social media companies] make $250 billion a year just on digital advertising in America, just between Google and Meta. Al. And so I just unleashed a package of bills that goes after all three. We're going at the jugular here. Question from the audience. (38:21–1:02:03)

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Asserts that Google and Meta make $250 billion annually from digital advertising in the U.S.

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