{"id":754949,"date":"2021-09-15T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=754949"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:35:15","slug":"their-product-is-killing-teenage-girls-joe-scarborough-pins-blame-on-congress-in-emotionally-charged-anti-facebook-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/their-product-is-killing-teenage-girls-joe-scarborough-pins-blame-on-congress-in-emotionally-charged-anti-facebook-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Their Product Is Killing Teenage Girls!\u2019: Joe Scarborough Pins Blame On Congress In Emotionally-Charged Anti-Facebook Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Ftheir-product-is-killing-teenage-girls-joe-scarborough-pins-blame-on-congress-in-emotionally-charged-anti-facebook-rant%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=754949&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-15-at-9.33.27-AM-e1631718838996.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough laid into Facebook and Congress during a Wednesday morning rant, arguing that Instagram was \u201ckilling teenage girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/joe-scarborough-flames-democrats-blowing-infrastructure-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scarborough<\/a> and his co-hosts on \u201cMorning Joe\u201d addressed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> report indicating Facebook officials were aware that Instagram, its photo-sharing platform, was negatively impacting mental health in teenage girls. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/joe-scarborough-blasts-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-political-disaster\/\">(RELATED: \u2018We Just Can\u2019t Keep Abandoning Allies\u2019: Joe Scarborough Goes After Biden, Calls Afghanistan Withdrawal A \u2018Political Disaster\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Wall Street Journal story landed like a bomb in our house yesterday,\u201d co-host Willie Geist began, saying that it shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone to learn that teens \u2014 especially girls \u2014 would be susceptible to depression and increased suicide rates when they were constantly comparing themselves to an impossible ideal and being rated by others on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see if you\u2019ve got a teenage girl how unhealthy that is, and as you say it\u2019s maddening to know that Facebook for the last three years has been all too aware of the effect that they\u2019re product has, but it makes them $100 billion a year,\u201d he continued, noting that Facebook was unlikely to take any action as long as Instagram was profitable. \u201cThat is where their bread is buttered. It will be up to someone on the outside to do something about it. Facebook knows, and doesn\u2019t seem to want to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/18\/morning-joe-mika-brzezinski-big-tech-twitter-facebook-sandberg-zuckerberg-biden-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mika Brzezinski<\/a> added that some of the higher-ups at tech companies did not allow their own children access to their own products because they understood the dangers they presented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/29\/malignant-force-joe-scarborough-blames-facebook-destroying-american-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scarborough<\/a> jumped in then and focused his ire on Congress, arguing that social networking sites bore responsibility for the spread of misinformation on everything from the coronavirus pandemic to the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 and asserting that lawmakers had a responsibility to hold them to account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir documents showing they know their product \u2014 and it is a product just like cigarettes are a product \u2014 that their product is killing teenage girls! Their product is destroying the lives of teenage girls! Their product is causing anxiety to rise in teenage girls! Their product is causing depression to rise in teenage girls!\u201d Scarborough continued, becoming more and more emotional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd on Capitol Hill, you do nothing! You do nothing in the House. You do nothing in the Senate. You mumble around on campaign trails. You try blame the other side. No, this is you! This is you. You have a voting card. You have a voice, you represent this country in congress. Stop telling us what you can\u2019t do, and start holding this malignant force in America in check,\u201d he shouted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough laid into Facebook and Congress during a Wednesday morning rant, arguing that Instagram was \u201ckilling teenage girls.\u201dScarborough and his co-hosts on \u201cMorning Joe\u201d addressed a Wall Street &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754949","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\/754949","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=754949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754949\/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=754949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}