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World Service,10 Feb 2026,49 mins
A lawyer accuses tech giants of engineering addiction in children's brains
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Mark Lanier is representing a woman who says she suffered severe mental harm by becoming addicted to social media as a child. Meta and Google deny their products deliberately harm children. We hear from a mother who lost her child. The brutal clampdown on protests in Iran left thousands dead. Activists claim that among those killed are several hundred children. The release of the Epstein documents continues to have an impact on powerful people around the world, In this hour we'll take a look at Epstein's connections to Slovakia. (Photo: Parents who lost children to social media–related harms hold a vigil ahead of a social media addiction trial; Credit: Jill Connelly/Reuters)
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