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The Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) is calling on the U.S. Department of Education to reconsider its plan to promote the use of Artificial Intelligence in school classrooms.

In a public comment filed with the department, PTC VP Melissa Henson wrote:

“While we appreciate the Department of Education’s interest in preparing students for the future, we need only to look at recent history to see how foolhardy it would be to move forward on rapid deployment of such a relatively new technology in our classrooms with the most vulnerable and impressionable segment of our population. Over the last decade, schools have embraced new technology—often at the urging of tech companies—without sufficient evidence of educational benefit, without adequate guardrails, and without fully understanding the risks.

“The results have been deeply troubling.

“Laptops, tablets, and other digital tools were sold to parents and educators as the keys to personalized learning and higher engagement. Instead, we’ve seen increased distraction, declining core skills, and rampant exposure to harmful content—even on school-issued devices. Common Sense Media reports that more than 40% of teens who viewed pornography at school saw it on school-issued devices. Students quickly learned to bypass filters, and schools have proven unable to fully protect them from explicit or dangerous material.

“These harms have been compounded by the mental health crisis linked to screen overuse. The Journal of the American Medical Association has found that children showing signs of screen addiction are at significantly greater risk for suicide. Psychologists like Jonathan Haidt have documented the doubling and tripling of depression, anxiety, and self-harm among teens—especially girls—following the rise of smartphones and social media. We are still grappling with the fallout of that uncontrolled experiment.

“Now, we are poised to make the same mistake with AI. Artificial intelligence is far more powerful, less predictable, and potentially more invasive than earlier educational technologies. We already have disturbing evidence of harm:

• AI-powered chatbots that engage in sexually explicit conversations with self-identified minors.
• AI-driven deepfake pornography targeting teen girls.
• AI algorithms that can amplify harmful content as effectively—or more so—than social media feeds.

“The idea of embedding AI into the daily lives of children without first establishing robust, enforceable safeguards is reckless. The federal government should not be encouraging early adoption of AI in classrooms until we can guarantee:

1. Demonstrable educational benefit, supported by peer-reviewed research, not industry marketing.
2. Stringent privacy protections, ensuring student data is never harvested, sold, or repurposed.
3. Content safety controls that cannot be easily bypassed.
4. Age-appropriate design standards that protect against grooming, explicit content, and exploitation.
5. Ongoing independent oversight with authority to halt use if harms emerge.

“We have been here before. The promises of ‘ed-tech’ have too often come from Silicon Valley marketing teams rather than from solid pedagogy, evidence-based research, or child development needs. This time, the stakes are even higher. AI can process, mimic, and manipulate human interaction at a scale and speed no prior technology could.

“We must resist the temptation to roll this out first and regulate later. If we fail to learn from the past decade’s mistakes, we risk creating another lost generation—children whose cognitive, emotional, and social development will be shaped, and potentially harmed, by untested AI tools.

“We urge the Department to prioritize rigorous, independent evaluation and child protection measures before promoting AI use in K–12 settings. Our children’s safety, privacy, and mental health must come before Big Tech’s market share.”

On Feb. 13, President Donald Trump established the Make America Healthy Again Commission to redirect our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease. The Commission’s core wellness priorities include reducing substance abuse, preventing addiction, and improving mental health.

Rescheduling marijuana, moving it to a lower federal drug schedule, risks undermining the president’s determination to address the growing health crisis in America by signaling that it is safe, despite clear evidence of harm. Today’s marijuana products often exceed 15–90% THC, far stronger than in past decades, and higher potency is linked to greater risk of addiction, psychosis, anxiety, and cognitive impairment.

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“Because you’re worth it.” Worth what? Degradation? Cosmetics juggernaut L’Oreal has hired an OnlyFans model famous for filming porn to promote a makeup brand popular with teenagers.

The firm hired Ari Kytsya, a US-based self-described ‘mattress actress’, a euphemism for a pornstar, as a brand ambassador for Urban Decay, a L’Oreal-owned line of makeup sold in Sephora, Boots and other high end shops. In a video posted to Urban Decay’s TikTok that has been viewed nearly over 19million times, Kytsya tells viewers that ‘censorship is out of control’ and calls for ‘uncensored makeup’ that performs ‘on stage, on camera and yes on mattresses’. Urban Decay brand is popular with teenagers, boasting more than 10million followers on Instagram.

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Times Square, New York City. The Warriors stood alongside parents and families devastated by the poison called FENTANYL. We were surrounded by posters of their loved ones, lives cut short. Learn more. Take action. Talk about IT.

Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for ages 18-45. SHOCKING.

Mourning families mark National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day in Times Square –

What You Need To Know

• • Families, law enforcement officials and advocates gathered in Times Square Thursday to commemorate National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
  • As family members spoke about their loved ones, the backdrop was a Times Square billboard showing the faces of people who have died from opioids, along with stats warning that opioids are the numbe rone killer of people in the U.S. ages 18-
  • In New York City, the opioid overdose death count in Q3 of 2024 was the lowest on record since 2020, according to the mayor’s office
  • Saint Patrick’s Cathedral partnered with the Black Poster Project and Facing Fentanyl to create a memorial showing pictures of those who lost their lives due to the opioid epidemic

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It offers another option from the ‘brick’ type phones many parents have turned to, allowing children to access social media and messaging if their parents agree, but with extra layers of safety inbuilt.

Finnish phone company Human Mobile Devices (HMD), which also makes Nokia handsets, developed the phone in response to widespread concerns from parents about standard smartphones.

Designed especially for children, creators said the Fuse handset, available with Vodafone and backed by the government, is not just a new model of phone but a whole new category.

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Children who regularly vape are three times more likely to become smokers later in life, a bombshell report has claimed.

Figures have long shown how the proportion of kids using e-cigarettes has exploded amid the decline of traditional smoking, with more than a third of 16 to 18-year-olds now regularly inhaling them.

For comparison, less than one in ten were doing so a decade ago.

But British researchers now believe the gadgets could pose a worse threat to children than thought.

In the largest global review on vaping in young people to date, experts from the University of York and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), found that vapers were also more likely to smoke more frequently and intensely.

Regularly using e-cigs could also increase the odds of respiratory illness and substance abuse, the scientists said.

However, other experts urged caution over the findings noting many of the studies assessed were merely observational and could not prove that vaping alone caused such health issues.

In the research, the scientists analysed 56 reviews on 384 youth vaping studies.

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