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And it's now time for your Daily Hortis News break a production of Fortis Institute.
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A 20-year-old woman took the stand last week in a landmark trial against YouTube and Metta.
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In her testimony, it should make every parent blood run cold.
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This woman, identified only as KGM told the court that she started using social media at the age
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of six, posted more than 300 YouTube videos before she turned 10, joined Instagram around the age
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of nine, and says the platform's algorithms and constant notifications kept her hooked.
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And she links Instagram filters directly to depression, insomnia, self-harm, and body image struggles.
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Mark Zuckerberg insists kids under 13 are banned from the platform, and the head of Instagram
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compared heavy use to binge-watching TV, because apparently renaming a problem just makes it disappear.
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Yeah, no, it doesn't. And speaking of kids, an Institute for Family Studies analysis show
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young families are voting with their moving trucks and heading to red states.
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States that went for Trump in 2024 gained over half a million children under 18 since 2019,
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while states that went for Kamala Harris saw kids under five dropped from 8.2 to 7.6 million.
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California loan lost 290,000 kids under the age of five. Turns out, families are preferring freedom
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in a backyard over that studio apartment and pronoun policy. And that pronoun culture also
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keeps producing rotten fruit, not to be posted to video of a California protestor,
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reportedly threatening to kill an activist over her opposition to gender surgeries on children.
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If your position is just so solid that you need a resort to death threats to defend it,
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that tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it? In Fairbax County, Virginia,
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a woman named Stephanie Minter was found stabbed to death at a bus stop on February 23rd.
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Police arrested a man and charged him with second-degree murder. The man? Well, he's been
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booked more than 30 times with many cases dropped before prosecution.
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And the H.S. blasted the county for dismissing charges and ignoring immigration detainers,
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while the local sheriff says she just follows orders. That's what happens to innocent people
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in the system, just continues to recycle violent offenders.
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Made while in Wyoming, the state Supreme Court struck down two post-doc pro-life laws in a
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four to one ruling, claiming the state constitution protects a right to abortion.
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One justice deceptive, calling the laws reasonable and necessary.
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The attorney general's recrust for a rehearing was rejected in February and proposed
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constitutional amendments failed to even get introduced during the budget session.
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And that wraps up today's Fortis News break. I'm Jimmy Hicks. If you want more,
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