General (02)Date:3/26/2025 2:07:18 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Trump turns homelessness response toward forced treatment
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Date:3/26/2025 5:32:27 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Panorama City man used social media to entice minors for sexual activitie s, police say
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Panorama City man used social media to entice minors for sexual activities, police say
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-26/panorama-city-man-used-social-media-to-entice-minors-for-sexual-activities-police-say
The 37-year-old allegedly used Instagram and Snapchat to contact several minors, some as young as 12 years old, to solicit sexual activities,
police said.
Date:3/28/2025 9:56:42 AM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Fwd: One Year of MAMA!
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Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Subject: Fwd: One Year of MAMA!
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From: Mothers Against Media Addiction <info@wearemama.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Subject: One Year of MAMA!
To: CRAIG A DURFEY <
MAMAs with Sen. Andrew Gounardes in Albany, NY, last year supporting
supporting nation-leading social media legislation.
Dear CRAIG,
One year ago, we launched MAMA with a bold vision: to rally parents and
allies to fight back against media addiction and create a world where real-life
experienc es and interac tions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood. W e
started with the goal of establishing six chapters in our first y ear; today , we
have 32 c hapters in 18 states, with a growing waitlist, including requests for
international expansion.
Together, we’ve built a powerful movement. In just one year:
W e engaged in state legislation from Colorado to Florida and have
helped pass legislation in New York to combat addictive soc ial media
feeds and protec t kids online.
W e mobilized parents, teachers, and advocates to take ac tion in
support of the federal Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).
W e’re at the forefront of the growing movement to ban soc ial media
and personal smart phones not just during class time but from “bell-to-
bell” during the school day.
Our national platform has grown to a community of over 10,000
parents and advocates nationwide who are dedicated to raising public
awareness, demanding safeguards, and mobilizing grassroots ac tion to
protect children’s right to acquire the basic building blocks for social
and emotional health, and academic flourishing.
MAMA has gained national recognition and is leading the conversation
in media outlets like CBS, AP News, The Washington Post, Oprah,
Psychology Today, The Information, Pivot, NPR, and more.
MAMA spokespeople and champions are in-demand experts at events
like the W orld Ec onomic Forum, press conferences, teachers’
c onferences, and school board meetings.
Our Expert Insights Series features some of the most influential voices
tackling social media’s impact on children's mental health, including
bestselling author Jonathan Haidt, Meta whistleblowers Ar turo Béjar
and Yaël Eisenstat, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torr es, and
Laura Marquez -Garrett of the Social Media Victims Law Center, and
many more.
And our Chapter Leaders are making waves in their communities and
gaining attention across the country from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh to
Florida.
It’s not an “error” when serving up damaging content to people—
including kids and teens—is a key part of your business model. An
apology is meaningless if you refuse to do anything about the broken
sy stem that warranted it. Until Big Tech is ready to take actual
responsibility and action for the harms their products created, MAMA
will c ontinue to stand up for our kids.
This is just the beginning. Thank you for being part of this fight. Here’s to
another y ear of impac t, growth, and advocacy—because our kids are worth
it.
W ith gratitude,
J ulie Sc elfo, Founder, MAMA
News You Need
The MAMA team's first "IRL" moment together in New York City this week !
This week, MAMA's c ore team gathered in the Big Apple to team-build
and fine-tune our ongoing strategy to defend childhood from Big Tec h.
Team members traveled from Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina and
even Puerto Rico for two days of in-person meetings — and some fun.
Highlights inc luded a field trip to Jonathan Haidt's talk at PS 3 in
Manhattan hosted by MAMA Manhattan Chapter Leader, Sar a
Hirschler; multic ultural snacking; plus team huddles at the beautiful
new Brookly n Heights Public Library. Spoiler alert: our wonderful new
c ommunity managers, Kimona Dussard and Austin Hahn, were able
to join us. It was an inspiring two days and we can't wait to offic ially
introduc e them to the MAMA community!
Google is fac ing lawsuits over its $2.7 billion investment in
Character.AI, despite urgent warnings from its own researchers last
y ear about the dangers of AI chatbots manipulating minors, leading to
self-harm and even suicide.
Meta c laims its recent flood of disturbing content was just an "error,"
but users say AI-generated shock videos and violent posts are still
infiltrating their feeds and their children's feeds — even with parental
c ontrols on.
Educator and author Emily Cherkin, (who was featured on our Expert
Insights Series in February with addiction expert Dr. Jim W inston), is
suing PowerSchool and IXL Learning on behalf of parents for allegedly
harvesting sensitive data from children and families without consent,
violating privac y and consumer rights—all under the guise of educ ation.
In a wise new essay for LitHub, Lisa Catherine Harper, an author
and essay ist who teac hes high school in Silicon Valley , explores how
two of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 19th-century tales offer a timely warning
about the dangers of excessive faith in technology—a conc ern that her
students already understand.
Three months after a 16-year-old teenager in Olympia, W ashington,
died after buy ing fentanyl-laced drugs on Snapchat, the Olympia
Police Department kicked off a new campaign to warn parents about
the deadly dangers of social media drug deals.
Reminder: in the last five years, fentanyl overdoses have bec ome a
leading cause of death for minors, a crisis fueled by soc ial media.
Acc ording to Paul DelPonte, Executive Director of the National
Crime Prevention Council (or NCPC), “Snapchat has become a
digital open-air drug market.” In 2023, NCPC urged the U.S. Dept. of
J ustic e to investigate social media companies for playing a part in the
illegal facilitation of fentanyl.
This week Instagram rolled out a new “School Partnership Program”
that promises partic ipating schools will have their reports of harmful
posts, including bully ing, “prioritized” for review. In exchange, schools
must open their own Instagram account and receive a banner on their
profile “so parents and students know they’re an offic ial Instagram
partner” — a dangerous de facto endorsement — despite the known
harms of the platform.
As noted by the online newspaper TechCrunch, Instagram’s “Sc hool
Partnership Program” comes as U.S. Senators advance the Kids Off
Soc ial Media Ac t (KOSMA), which seeks to ban soc ial media ac cess
for kids under 13. In February, the Senate Committee on Commerce
approved the bill. The U.S. Senate has also passed two related bills: the
Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online
Privacy Protection Ac t 2.0 (COPPA 2.0), which MAMA hopes will be
taken up in the next legislative session.
Instagram’s (alarming) press release also touts giving parents “easy
way s to block their teens from using Instagram during school hours.”
Notic eably absent: Instagram itself simply blocking kids and teens from
using Instagram during school hours. Also absent: Instagram CEO
Adam Mosseri, a father, joining with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready to
support a nationwide bell-to-bell ban on personal smartphones during
sc hool, which would more significantly ease schoolday cy berbullying
and reduce the burden on teachers and parents.
Big Tech continues to put profits over children’s safety—but together, we’re fighting
back . W ith the support of parents and advocates lik e you, MAMA is leading a powerful,
nationwide movement to protect k ids from online harms.
Your gift today will help us meet the overwhelming demand for new MAMA chapters, equip
parents with the tools to push for phone-free schools, and ensure lawmak ers hear our
voices loud and clear.
Become a monthly sustaining donor now to fuel this growing movement and create a safer,
healthier future for children.
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Date:3/28/2025 9:01:25 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Screen time before bed linked to poorer sleep in adults – study
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Date:3/28/2025 9:06:58 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Education Department halts final payouts of federal pandemic relief funds
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Date:3/28/2025 9:23:00 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Trump turns homelessness response toward forced treatment
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Date:4/1/2025 8:53:33 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Ontario Making It Easier to Enter Skilled Trades
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https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004514/ontario-making-it-easier-to-enter-skilled-trades
Date:4/2/2025 2:32:45 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Goodbye to social media for minors? This state introduced a bill to require the conse nt of a parent
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consent of a parent - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/goodbye-to-social-media-for-minors-this-state-introduced-a-bill-to-require-
the-consent-of-a-parent/ar-AA1C8Djz?ocid=socialshare
Date:4/4/2025 10:40:42 AM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] [your]NEWS: RFK Jr. Pushes for Cellphone Ban in Schools, Citing He alth and Academic Risks
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Link: https://yournews.com/2025/03/23/3321292/rfk-jr-pushes-for-cellphone-ban-in-schools-citing-health/
Date:4/4/2025 1:35:23 PM
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Subject:[EXTERNAL] Schools told to certify end of DEI or else
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