California lawmaker pushes to hold social media companies accountable for fentanyl, firearms sales

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An East Bay lawmaker wants to hold social media companies accountable for harmful messages to kids. State Sen. Nancy Skinner has introduced a bill that fines them for using ads that could lead kids to buy fentanyl, kill themselves, or develop an eating disorder.

California bill proposes to hold social media platforms accountable for selling fentanyl, firearms

, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner , is trying to eliminate the risk of buying fentanyl, developing eating disorders, or even kill themselves after seeing social media content.Skinner noted that there is a "disturbing increase" of reports of youth dying after unwittingly taking fentanyl that was sold to them by people who secretly entered the kids' conversations on Snapchat or other platforms.

 

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How about arresting the president and VP. They pretty much are the biggest drug importers/dealers of it

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