Representative Pat Fallon
Appearances
Morning Wire
NPR, PBS Heads Testify & Trump’s Voter ID EO | Afternoon Update | 3.26.25
There was an analysis done on PBS's NewsHour from June to November of 2023, where they found that far right was that term was used 162 times and far left was only used six times. Do you find that troubling?
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NPR, PBS Heads Testify & Trump’s Voter ID EO | Afternoon Update | 3.26.25
Media Research Center did a six-month analysis, and it's not how you find it. You say far right, it's terms. They use the term far right 162 times, far left six times. That's a 96 to 4% skew.
Morning Wire
Lawmakers Probe Signal-Gate & Conservatives Swatted | 3.27.25
They found that far right was, that term was used 162 times, and far left was only used six times. Do you find that troubling?
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Lawmakers Probe Signal-Gate & Conservatives Swatted | 3.27.25
Media Research Center did a six-month analysis, and it's not, how do you find it? You say far right, it's terms.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
But even worse than that, after my son took his life, I'd never heard of what sextortion was or had a clue of what it was.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
They began to extort Gavin's 16-year-old brother, a 14-year-old cousin, and then trying to extort me as well, fully aware that Gavin had taken his life. They sent a message to me and said, did I tell you your son begged for his life?
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
Often with these extortion schemes, you have money launderers within the United States that are transferring funds in order to get them overseas as well. And then typically overseas, in Gavin's case, it came out of Lagos, Nigeria. There is a well-known group called the Yahoo Boys that are doing a lot of these extortion schemes overseas.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
I tell them, number one, don't send images to someone that you've never met before. I mean, you don't want to send an images, period. But if you do, make sure that your face and your privates are not identified on the same picture as well. And if that does happen, don't be scared. Be brave enough to go to your parents, to go to law enforcement, to report this.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
Because if you don't, if you feel like you can just pay them and just go away, they're going to continue to go after not only you, because it will never stop once you pay them money. They're going to continue to go after other teens and make them feel the same way that you feel right now. So it's very important for us to report it so we can go after these criminals.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
I think it was $25 over to them. But of course, that's never enough. The key to this is to ensure that you never send a penny. Because once you send money over, they know that they have you.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
I think the number one thing that we have to do is to remove Section 230 or revisit Section 230, which is written in 1996. But it gives these companies, who are the richest companies since the inception of man, it absolves them from being sued.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
So we can sue them, but things get thrown out before discovery because they just say, well, we're not responsible for anything online because it's a public forum.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
I would say for parents, number one, I think often we as parents get very angry whenever our child makes a mistake. And we need to learn grace again. We need to understand where we were at that age. And while we might not have shared pictures back and forth with one another, this is part of their generation. This is the Snapchat generation. So we can say, don't send pictures, don't share pictures.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
Nowadays, you don't even have to. It can be AI. But this is your reputation and it's getting spread throughout your entire community. It's not one school where you get this name. So you need to be there to fight for your kid and make sure you have the conversation that regardless of what the situation is, make sure that they know that you will be there for them.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
I felt like I had that conversation and that connection with Gavin. However, this was just so much shame that he didn't feel that he could come to me.
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The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
Tomorrow needs us adults to stand up and fight to protect our children. But tomorrow certainly needs the next generation. If we don't have the next generation, then what are we fighting for?
Morning Wire
The Sextortion Crisis Claiming the Lives of Teen Boys | 4.12.25
My son Gavin was contacted by a predator through Instagram messaging. He jumped off the video game with friends to have a chat with this female or so he thought. They began to share images. And within one hour and 40 minutes, Gavin took his life. They began to demand money, giving countdowns.
Morning Wire
White House Easter Message & New Weight Loss Pill | Afternoon Update | 4.18.25
Eli Lilly says its experimental weight loss pill has passed its first late stage trial. Orforglipron is designed to help patients with type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar and shed pounds. The daily pill showed results similar to current injectable drugs like Ozempic and Monjaro.
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White House Easter Message & New Weight Loss Pill | Afternoon Update | 4.18.25
The pharmaceutical company hopes the pill will become a needle-free alternative in the booming weight loss and diabetes market. Some analysts say the results fell short on one key diabetes measure, but the company plans to seek approval for obesity use by year's end. Eli Lilly's stock rose 14% on the news.
Morning Wire
White House Easter Message & New Weight Loss Pill | Afternoon Update | 4.18.25
We revoked her visa. It's an F1 visa, I believe. We revoked it, and here's why.
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White House Easter Message & New Weight Loss Pill | Afternoon Update | 4.18.25
If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa.