Traci Mumford
speaker
1,016 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Traci Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
Appearances
Digging through them, my colleagues have found that the companies spent years actively trying to get teens to use their products during the school day.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries is an investigative reporter at The Times.
She says that one of the documents surfaced by the lawsuits is an internal YouTube memo from 2015 where employees noted that Saturdays drew tens of millions more hours of viewing than a weekday.
They concluded that, quote, increasing usage in schools Monday to Friday could decrease this gap!
Exclamation point.
Jennifer says other companies talked about kids in schools as an opportunity as well.
In response to questions from The Times, a Google spokesman said the documents surfaced in the lawsuits are outdated.
Meta said its school outreach program was about soliciting feedback on products, among other things.
And a spokeswoman for Snap said, quote, Overall, the social media companies have argued that parents, schools, and cell phone makers bear responsibility for kids' phone habits.
Recently, the companies settled for about $30 million with a small school district in rural Kentucky.
That served as a test case for the broader litigation nationwide, and it suggests that as more of the lawsuits work their way through the courts, the companies could be on the hook for potentially billions of dollars.
Marjan Satrapi, the Iranian-French author behind the groundbreaking graphic novel series Persepolis, has died at 56 years old.
Through her books, she introduced millions of readers to the struggles of everyday Iranians during the Islamic Revolution.
Released in the early 2000s, the graphic novels combined comics and memoir, telling the story of the Iran-Iraq War, the overthrow of the Shah, and what it was like for her growing up in a repressive society.
The books were later adapted into an animated film, which was nominated for an Oscar.
Satrapi was born in Iran in the late 60s, and her family resisted the changes the country was undergoing when she was growing up, especially the new restrictions on how women could dress and what they could do.
Her family sent her abroad as a teenager.
She then came back to Iran to study art in her 20s, but eventually left for good, landing in France, where she wrote Persepolis.
Across all of her work, which included children's books and several feature films, she frequently explored a sense of dislocation, of living away from her home country but thinking of it constantly.
In an essay she wrote for The Times, she said that despite the fact that she became a French citizen, quote, to me the word home has only one meaning, Iran.
Showing 21–40 of 1,016 · page 2 of 51
← Previous
Next →