Candice Odgers
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Right.
There's the money thing.
But the whole focus was on smartphones.
And so people now can use AI and take a picture of that graph and go back and check it against the original data.
And it looks like it was cooked.
There is so much incentive right now to sell these scary stories about our young people because it sells.
And we just did a survey of California voters.
And the only thing that Democrats and Republicans and independents agreed on was that they wanted to ban smartphones in schools and they wanted to get kids off of social media.
There are no differences between Democrats, independents and Republicans on that issue in America today, which is incredible.
So if you are running for office, this is an easy thing to target.
Children don't vote.
They're an easy group to push aside and to tell stories about.
It's a political win.
Now, this isn't to discount the harm.
Yeah, because that's what I wanted to ask you.
Or to advocate for big tech.
I mean, no, no, no, no.
But what we're doing is we're actually giving them a pass when we go right to a ban.
We're allowing them to say that young people are no longer on the platform.
And we can see, I mean, we get data streaming from their phones.