{"id":1353677,"date":"2022-03-01T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353677"},"modified":"2022-03-01T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:23:09","slug":"biden-makes-urgent-plea-for-increased-restrictions-on-social-media-in-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-urgent-plea-for-increased-restrictions-on-social-media-in-state-of-the-union-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Makes Urgent Plea For Increased Restrictions On Social Media In State Of The Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-makes-urgent-plea-for-increased-restrictions-on-social-media-in-state-of-the-union-address%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass legislation strengthening restrictions on social media for children during his State of the Union address Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, and demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s remarks come amid increased scrutiny of social media platforms for their negative impact on users\u2019 mental health, particularly teens and children. An investigation by The Wall Street Journal in September <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/facebook-instagram-harmful-teen-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> that Instagram parent company Meta had documented its platforms\u2019 negative effects on teen girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren were also struggling before the pandemic,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBullying, violence, trauma, and the harms of social media.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/27\/facebook-instagram-josh-hawley-marsha-blackburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Lawmakers, Child Advocates Say They Aren\u2019t Satisfied With Facebook\u2019s Latest Bid To Protect Kids)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Meta employee and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-mark-zaid-bill-burton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whistleblower<\/a> Frances Haugen, who leaked internal documents to the WSJ, attended the address as a guest of First Lady Jill Biden. The president cited her work and expertise to drive home his argument that the federal government needs to do more to address the harms of social media on teen users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Frances Haugen, who is here with us tonight, has shown, we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they\u2019re conducting on our children for profit,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7296992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7296992\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7296992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232-1536x660-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/haugen-scaled-e1633562363232-2048x880-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7296992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled \u2018Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower\u2019 on Capitol Hill on Capitol Hill, October 05, 2021 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Haugen, who worked with Democratic operatives including former Obama administration official and consultant Bill Burton, has previously called for censorship of \u201ctoxic\u201d content and called for \u201csoft interventions\u201d to reduce the spread of misinformation on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/01\/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-announce-strategy-to-address-our-national-mental-health-crisis-as-part-of-unity-agenda-in-his-first-state-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact sheet<\/a> released before Biden\u2019s address, the White House expanded on the president\u2019s plans, urging Congress to pass legislation that prevents \u201cdiscriminatory algorithmic decision-making\u201d and secures investments\u00a0in research on social media\u2019s mental harms.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who has led <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/16\/marsha-blackburn-richard-blumenthal-big-tech-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">efforts<\/a> to pass child safety legislation alongside Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, applauded Biden for his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden is issuing a powerful call to action on the youth mental health crisis exacerbated by social media, addressed directly by my Kids Online Safety Act,\u201d Blumenthal said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cI\u2019m leading this measure with Senator Blackburn so kids and parents are empowered with tools and safeguards to protect against toxic online content like self-harm, eating disorders, and bullying\u2014and to hold Big Tech accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several other legislative proposals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/senators-markey-and-blumenthal-rep-castor-reintroduce-legislation-to-protect-children-and-teens-from-online-manipulation-and-harm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including<\/a> the KIDS Act led by Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, seek to address the issues raised by Biden in the address.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass legislation strengthening restrictions on social media for children during his State of the Union address Tuesday.\u201cIt\u2019s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}