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WOR Street Reporter Natalie Migliore Interviews · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten wars bet on the street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori from the flooded streets up to the dry suites.
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  Speaker 1: I see you've assembled the jury for Zuckerberg of Meta
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City as he goes on trial
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  Speaker 1: in California. What do the people say about this Zuck?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're talking about young people, right, who are
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  Speaker 2: really in the thick of using his social media platforms,
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  Speaker 2: Facebook and Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Really. As the trial gets underway this week, the question arises.
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  Speaker 2: As to how social media has impacted kids and their
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  Speaker 2: mental health.
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  Speaker 3: We hear about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: At least twenty nine states are taking part in the
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit against the social media operator, with key allegations hinging
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  Speaker 2: on Meta deliberately purposely designing these platforms to exploit the
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable minds of kids and teens.
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  Speaker 4: I think social media in general has always the fuck
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  Speaker 4: that one, but definitely Meta has had a negative input
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  Speaker 4: on a lot of the younger generation. The way they
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  Speaker 4: use social media, what they see on social media, everything
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  Speaker 4: in general has been sort of increased in a negative way,
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  Speaker 4: and it's definitely terrifying.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it affected me that much, like social
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  Speaker 5: media has been beneficial for me, and it helps me
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  Speaker 5: communicate with my friends.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like social media, lookie, has affected a lot
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  Speaker 6: of my mental health, Like the looks maxing stuff. I
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  Speaker 6: feel like that's made me like a lot more insecure
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  Speaker 6: and like more like wanting to compare myself to other
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  Speaker 6: people I see online and stuff. So I feel like
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  Speaker 6: it has affected me a pretty good amount.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you found all these GenZers out there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they want to talk to another gen zer.
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  Speaker 1: Well you let them know Kurtishly was host maxing you here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but what else did they have to say?
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  Speaker 2: Look now, I'm talking to fifteen or sixteen year old
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  Speaker 2: kids and they've got mixed opinions.
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  Speaker 3: You can hear.
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  Speaker 2: And it really depends on where the parents are in
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  Speaker 2: terms of letting them be on social media, how long
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  Speaker 2: where they their phone when they go to sleep at night,
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  Speaker 2: sort of rules, ground rules in the house. When talking
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  Speaker 2: to people in their mid twenties, they're not sure that
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  Speaker 2: these platforms are entirely responsible for our phone addictions.
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  Speaker 7: It's fifty to fifty because I feel like the effect
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  Speaker 7: that social media has in us is also like what
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  Speaker 7: we cause it to have on us. You know what,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, so we use it too much, and that's
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  Speaker 7: also our fault. So we can't just say social media
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  Speaker 7: is the problem because we don't you do anything to
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  Speaker 7: change that.
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  Speaker 8: It's all us. Social media is crippling to people to
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  Speaker 8: the point where people are people are self diagnosing themselves
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  Speaker 8: with you know, medical things and all that kind of
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  Speaker 8: stuff just to social media.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 8: So it's just it's crippling us. Hopefully we can get
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  Speaker 8: back into real life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, real life is where we're at. Where the States
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  Speaker 2: claim Meta created an addictive product design that features algorithms
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  Speaker 2: and persistent push alerts with visual filters that spur body
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  Speaker 2: dysmorphia and jump back down to the younger generation, and
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  Speaker 2: they really do think that social media is responsible for it.
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  Speaker 3: They think that it needs to be rained in.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because I feel like social media like affects really
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  Speaker 6: affects teenagers growing up.
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  Speaker 5: I thought should be because if you're feeding like some
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  Speaker 5: inappropriate stuff to the young age groups, then that's not
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  Speaker 5: good and that could and that could influence the way
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  Speaker 5: that they the way that they go up and the
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  Speaker 5: way they see thinks. So there should be some guidelines
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  Speaker 5: and some restrictions.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if Meta loses picking yeah. Yeah. Was that a
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  Speaker 3: gen alf for it because he sounded really young, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: fifteen sixteen. Yeah, so they're that's.
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  Speaker 2: The top of the top of the end of gen alpha, which, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: their entire life has been social media from birth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, correct.
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  Speaker 2: And so I thought that was a pretty informative, a
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  Speaker 2: pretty informed opinion that he had formed. The crazy thing
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  Speaker 2: was when I went to walk away from these guys,
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  Speaker 2: they were all making fun of each other on just
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  Speaker 2: about like social media and how it impacts them and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like, you know, And I said to my said
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  Speaker 2: to them, I go, the boys are all right, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the boys are They're gonna be all right. The kids
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  Speaker 2: are okay. But it's certainly how this uh, how this
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  Speaker 2: trial plays out. We've got six weeks on it, so
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  Speaker 2: about depending. So how it plays out, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to see and if if Meta is in trouble, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be forced to pay billions of dollars and
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  Speaker 2: potentially redesign there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me give you props here, Natalie Magliori, what
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  Speaker 1: an amazing group of people responding to your questions this morning.
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  Speaker 1: The other week was like NPR ish today. It had
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  Speaker 1: youth centric themes. Wow, you're getting eight. Now get this
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  Speaker 1: a panoply of different contributors.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's the goal, right, We got to reach everybody. Ses,
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  Speaker 3: I try a panoply. I gotta go get the dictionary.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, you'll be back Monday with Larry, who's taking
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  Speaker 1: his gen Z at a college.
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  Speaker 6: Jumbis