Phones & Social Media: ‘Modern Day Weapons Of Mass Destruction’

Social media companies have been highly scrutinized lately. Concerns over censorship, personal privacy, and even national security have gotten the attention of users and lawmakers across the country. But the recent headlines about platforms like Twitter and TikTok have largely overlooked another troubling issue about social media: what it does to our children. Tom Kersting, a family therapist and the author of the upcoming book, “Raising Healthy Teenagers”, joins the Rundown to discuss why he believes parents need to be more involved with how long kids are on social media and what they’re doing on it. He also offers advice on to help teens who are dealing with the stresses and anxieties of adolescence in our new smartphone-obsessed world.

This past year was marked by some horrific mass shootings, whether it be a club in Colorado Springs, New York, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, or a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, California. Reports and investigations would later show that many of these mass shooting events were classified as hate crimes that were motivated by some form of racial bias. Today, we look back at our interview with former Ku Klux Klan member, Scott Shepherd. He spoke with Jessica Rosenthal shortly after the allegedly racially motivated shooting in Buffalo last May. Shepard discussed how people fall down a rabbit hole of hateful ideology, and why he believes hate crimes are still so persistent in the U.S.

Plus, commentary from FOX News Contributor Liz Peek