Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Well, on the show today, Meta has been under fire for failing to protect children on its platforms for years, and a jury has just found it guilty. Inside all of the ways children are harmed on Meta and other social media platforms, so you can better protect the children in your life.
Then Democrats are leaning into their childhood trauma to try to appeal to their voting base that's sad and all pumped full of SSRIs. Will it work in 2028? I guess we'll see. Plus, McDonald's is testing out humanoid robots to deliver your french fries and then replace other human tasks. What could go wrong? And I'll explain the latest AI trend taking TikTokers by storm.
Are they rotting our brains on purpose to set us up for Neuralink? We're going to get into that theory. Put your phones on. Do not disturb. The show starts now. Meta, the parent company owned by Mark Zuckerberg, has been under fire for years for a multitude of reasons. Now, my issues with Meta, well, they started around COVID because of censorship. That was just one of the reasons.
And I'm sure everyone remembers, you know, Meta owns Facebook, Instagram. Many conservative influencers experienced shadow banning, even real banning.
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Chapter 2: What did the New Mexico jury find Meta guilty of?
Mark Zuckerberg admitted to being bullied by the Biden administration into... censoring conservative viewpoints. I remember, uh, Tucker Carlson, Tommy Lahren, just to name a few, they were talking about the vaccine, how they didn't want to get the vaccine, which isn't false. It's just not what the Biden administration wanted to push. So therefore they censored it.
And that's all it's come out in lawsuits and, um, there's proof of that. So Mark Zuckerberg, he admitted to being bullied by the Biden administration, even getting yelled at by Biden staffers to go through with this censorship. And he just said, okay. And he's admitted now that that's wrong, but too little too late, in my opinion, and a lot of other people's opinions.
You'll remember that President Trump was temporarily banned from these platforms following January 6th. That was insane to de-platform a sitting president of the United States. So Mark Zuckerberg, in my opinion, spineless. But Meta is under fire for the damaging effects its platform has on its users, primarily children. Users are addicted to these platforms.
They're designed to be addictive because the company wants more users and they want the users to stay on the platform longer.
Chapter 3: What strategies are Democrats using to appeal to voters?
So there are features like infinite scroll. You know, once you play one video, the next one just shows up on its own. So you don't even have to touch your phone. You're just given content after content, video after video, same thing with autoplay. You go to the platform to watch one video, the next thing starts and there's all of a sudden you're looped into this playlist of infinite content.
Then of course, notifications. It triggers this thing in your brain where you get excited when you see a new notification. Algorithms doing the same thing. They're keeping the users on the platforms for hours. People are checking their phones for notifications like a drug. And I'm addicted to my phone. You all know this.
This show is called Scrolling with Haley because my screen time is astronomical. I spend 14 hours a day on my phone. Plus, there are some days where we get into 16-hour territory. It's a little scary. actually is a lot scary.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of AI in content creation?
But thankfully, my brain developed as a child before these kinds of things were implemented. I can't imagine children at such impressionable ages being exposed to these kinds of dopamine hits and then these come downs, inevitable come downs. This is why we're seeing kids not being able to function in public unless they have a screen in front of them. You guys see it on airplanes, restaurants.
If any parent these days wants to bring their kid out in public and not have them throw a tantrum, it just seems like they are using a screen, an iPad, a phone as a pacifier, as this digital pacifier. Oh, my kid's screaming, here, play a game on my phone. So now we're seeing kids grow up And they're anxious to take phone calls. They're anxious to speak to people in real life.
They would rather text and send memes and play games and go into this depressive hole. This all creates anxiety, self-harm. Kids are now comparing themselves to AI, to airbrushed models. This creates body image issues or at least exacerbates them.
This all, you know, we want to blame the platforms, but these issues have existed outside of, you know, meta and other social media platforms for decades. You can't just blame, you know, Facebook for giving people mental health problems. It might exacerbate the problem, but it's not the root cause of the problem.
And now, you know, before social media, there were the 90s skinny cocaine chic models and all of the advertisements, you know, so women felt insecure and and inferior to these women. They thought that, oh, I'll never I'll never shape up. I'll never I'll never change. beyond their level. I mean, how could I ever look like that? I can't even diet and look like that.
And you'll remember people used to say the models don't even look like the models in the magazines to try to get people to realize that Photoshop is real.
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Chapter 5: How does social media harm children?
And Photoshop might be real, but the models looking that perfect were not real. So people know that, but it still doesn't It doesn't fix the problem, right? I mean, you know that these models aren't real, but then you keep seeing them on social media. And I'm talking about kids, right? Kids, high school age girls, they're scrolling on Instagram these days.
They see Instagram models and they're perfect. I mean, they have perfect skin. They have a perfect body. And these young women are thinking, I'm never gonna look like that. Then we get into bullying. Kids before social media, they were bullied in real life. They were bullied at the lockers. They were bullied on the playground.
And now these social media platforms are just the new medium for these kinds of messages and these kinds of bullying and this kind of comparison that is really setting kids up to fail. And the most concerning side effect of social media for kids is now their proximity to pedophiles and predators. Predators have instant access to victims via DM and other chat rooms.
Sextortion schemes are carried out on social media platforms. Child sex abuse material is shared far and wide. People take social media photos and then they turn them into pornography. So we see this as a problem now. A lot of parents, they wanna share their child, their newborn, their toddler with the world. They wanna share their first day of school photo. They wanna share a birthday.
All of these happy moments in their lives, all of these milestones. So then they post this photo on social media and it gets a lot of likes. It gets a lot of shares. People can screenshot them. And even if you post your kid or your grandkid to your Instagram account that might be private, you might only let family or friends follow you.
That doesn't mean that these photos can't get into the wrong hands. You might think you know the people who follow you, but you don't. You can be wrong. You can be wrong about people. And I don't know the exact statistic, but in terms of pedophilia, I mean, you have to worry about the people in your inner circle. It's not so much the creepy guy at the park. It's people that you know.
It's a pastor. It's a coach. It's a tutor. It's a teacher. there are all of these instances, it's an uncle, it's an older brother, it's these people that you know, and you are betrayed by them. And I think a lot of parents, Not that they want to be naive to this, but I think it's just easier to think, well, this will never happen to me, and no, not my family, and no, not my friends.
It would never happen to me. It would never happen to my kid. My kid is safe. But it's really not. Your kids are not safe on social media. I don't really know why people post photos of their newborn babies. I don't know why people post photos of their toddlers. It's not necessary at all.
And your kids can't really, I know this is getting a little intense, but your kids can't really consent to their photos being posted on the internet. It's one thing to take photos and keep them in a family photo album for yourselves. But kids don't really have any understanding of what it means to have their photos on social media.
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Chapter 6: How does addiction to social media affect mental health?
coming into contact with predators and the issues persist. We also saw this with Roblox. I did an episode recently on all of the predators that are on Roblox. That is a gaming platform for children. Tons of children are on it. Millions of children are on it. And there are, again, other instances of predators making accounts. They are getting in contact with children.
They are inviting them to meet them in real life and they are abusing them in real life. So Roblox, same thing. They have said, you know, we're putting all of these guardrails into place. Your kids aren't going to be able to DM strangers, things like that. It still happens, right? They ruled out all of these things in 2024, I think 2025.
And there are cases as recent as this year, just, you know, a month ago of kids going to meet adults that they met on Roblox. So... It's not foolproof. And I don't believe in government bans. I don't really believe in government intervention. I hate the government. And I hate when the government wants to play the role of the parent.
But parents have to know these risks so that they can better protect their own children and grandchildren, nieces, nephews, et cetera. As much as we all want to blame Mark Zuckerberg for all of these problems or blame Google or whatever the platform is, it's just not enough. It's not enough to point fingers at these people. It's not entirely their fault. There's going to be evil everywhere.
You can't rely on a platform to fix all of these issues that have plagued our society long before they even existed. So we have to do our parts first. And I believe in accountability. And if you want to keep your children safe, you have to do your part. Should Meta continue to put guardrails in place to make their app safer? Absolutely, I am all for it, but our society is deeply rotten.
There are evil doers everywhere. There are pedophiles everywhere. Even if you think you live in the safest neighborhood, they could be right next door to you. And even if they don't live right next door to you, they can still talk to your kid. They can still, if they're not physically in your child's bedroom, they can be talking to them via a laptop, an iPad, a phone, a watch.
That is a very scary reality that nobody wants to admit. But as soon as you let your child on social media and the internet, it's a possibility. And can we raise the next generation of children and shelter them completely from the internet in 2026? Of course not. That's not realistic either. You know, having your kid grow up like the Amish is not going to work.
You go to school and you have iPads in school. You have computers in school. I know it's kind of a trend now. Parents are seeking out schools that don't have a lot of technology in them. And I think that's smart, but it's, again, not foolproof. There's no way to keep your kid off the internet.
And once you tell a kid no, and I know this because I once was a child that was told no, it makes you want to do it even more. It makes you want to go, oh, I'm not allowed to do this. Oh, don't touch the stove. It's hot. It makes you want to test this out yourself. And it doesn't mean that your kid is a bad kid, but if you tell your kid, hey, hey, don't make a Facebook account.
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Chapter 7: What is the role of AI in shaping our attention spans?
But I remember that was hilarious because he was so anti Ron DeSantis and his parents, they got houses in Florida like a lot of people. They fleed blue states in order to get rid of or not deal with the COVID vaccine mandates and things like that. They wanted to live in a nice red state for a change. And Gavin Newsom's family, they were no different.
So then Gavin Newsom, he has written a memoir recently called Young Man in a Hurry. And of course, he recounts having dyslexia. That is a big problem for Gavin Newsom, apparently. And he also complained in his memoir about, you know, being raised by parents that didn't like him. He had a stepmom or, oh no, his mom was saying that like, it's okay to be average.
It's okay if you have, it's okay if you have a disability, a learning disability, it's okay to be average. And, you know, he talks in his memoir about how that really bothered him, that he thought that his parents didn't like him or, you know, didn't accept him. And Then he was, you know, struggling with his parents' divorce. He had an absent father.
And of course, all of this leads up to the infamous Gavin Newsom, I can't read moment. Remember this?
I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.
Yeah.
And you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy, I cannot, you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.
Does anyone believe that Gavin Newsom can't read? He can't read a speech. I don't believe that. Does being dyslexic make you racist? Does it make you a total grifter? Does it cause narcissistic tendencies like this? Gavin Newsom posted this on social media recently within this week. Saying that he looked like Patrick Bateman, or I guess saying that, next one, number seven, please.
He said, for so many years, people have been saying that Patrick Bateman and I look alike. Now this pic has been going all over the place. What do you think? And this is, that doesn't even look like Gavin Newsom on the left. it doesn't even look like him at all. It just, it looks fake. I don't even think that's a real photo of Gavin Newsom, but anyway, he puts himself next to Patrick Bateman.
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Chapter 8: What are the dangers of sharing children's photos online?
He wants to come off as this kid who struggled and built himself up from nothing. He had a silver spoon in his mouth. Sorry, I know he struggles to read, but there are worse things in the world. Struggling with dyslexia and making it his whole personality isn't the flex he thinks it is, especially when he uses it to call black people dumb.
Then you contrast that with President Trump, who has a huge personality. People love his personality or they hate it, but people love him because at least even his haters know that he's real. He's not lying. This is exactly who President Trump is.
And most people can see through Gavin Newsom's fake sob stories and probably the fake sob stories of these other Democrats that are running and saying that they grew up with such a hard life. Are people going to buy it? I don't know. Certainly the Republicans, the pull yourself up by your bootstraps type people are not going to fall for that.
We don't like the whole victim mentality thing, but liberals love it. So maybe that'll work. Maybe it'll work to set themselves apart in a Democratic field of however many candidates are going to throw their hat in the ring. But maybe they'll whoever has the most childhood trauma will will get themselves to the White House or at least the the nomination. It'll be interesting to watch.
Moving on now, the CDC has put out a level one travel warning. This is as I see these headlines and I'm like, I get flashbacks from COVID and I'm thinking, no, never again, right? Never again. We shouldn't have even had a travel warning or anything the first time. And, you know, we see how that worked out. Now this is happening again this time because of dengue fever.
American travelers are returning home with it. Great. So these travelers who are getting dengue fever are returning from, you guessed it, Afghanistan, Bangladesh. I heard it's gorgeous this time of year, Afghanistan. I don't know why people are taking trips there. Yeah, and I looked into this because I'm thinking, who is going to Afghanistan for a trip?
Like if I could pick you have anywhere in the entire world, you could have a globe and you could close your eyes and and spin it and land it and you could go anywhere and it would be better than, you know, Taliban run Afghanistan. But I guess people are going there. And I looked into this and apparently the Taliban is really pushing tourism right now. They want more people to come visit.
I can only imagine why. And I don't know who's falling for this. You have to be very stupid. But they want people to come to Afghanistan. I'm sure they want to make money with tourism. And during the Biden administration, this was like 2023, they were about... 650 people traveling, Americans traveling to Afghanistan. And now they're about 6,000.
So whatever the Taliban is doing to get people to visit is, I guess, working. Maybe they're employing travel influencers to tell people that it's really not that bad. We really don't rape women. We really don't kill people that we don't like. We're really not that bad of terrorists. Maybe it's working. Anyway, these people, U.S.
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