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Jake Auchincloss: “We have to ban smartphones in schools.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:37

It is. These social media corporations are attention fracking our kids. They're rewiring our kids brains. They are turning our children into a product and they need to pay for it. We have to ban smartphones in schools. We've got to tax their digital advertising revenue $250 billion a year and use it to fix what they have broken. And this TikTok divestment is the first step to taking back family time from Screen time. (04:37–04:40)

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