After her 15-year-old son Mason died following a viral online challenge, Joann Bogard began asking how dangerous content reached him in the first place. Now, as a jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent for addictive design, her story sits at the center of a reckoning over what social media platforms owe young users.
Bogard speaks with Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd about the loss of her son, what she’s learned about how harmful content reaches kids, and why she believes this moment could change how social media works.
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