As Dr. Phil puts it, young people are often targeted online by "chaos agents" who aim to push a harmful narrative on children, such as promoting eating disorders, suicide, and many other troubling topics.
Now, Dr. Phil is fighting to save our impressionable young children from this harmful content and striving to raise more public awareness around this issue.
From Western Journal:
I'm sure there are many who will label Dr. Phil a conspiracy theorist for discussing this, but when it comes down to the well-being of our children, who cares, right?
McGraw, the host of the TV show “Dr. Phil,” was a guest on a recent podcast hosted by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Cruz noted that “the pressures that are on our kids right now are qualitatively different from what we experienced.”
“I mean, they’re just assaulted online with social media. They’re confronted with themes and messaging and influence that is deliberately poisoning them, and what about that worries you? And what should parents be doing about that?” he said.
“Well, a lot about it worries me because it’s, it’s not just that there’s competing information out there,” McGraw said.
“Our children today — and if I sound like a conspiracy nut, let me tell you, I’m not a conspiracy nut — and I ask anybody that’s listening to my voice right now, I’ve — you said I’ve written nine books. That’s true,” he said.
“One of the things I talk about is the fact that our children aren’t just being exposed, they’re being targeted,” he said.
“And when I say targeted, I wrote a book in, I think, 2004 called ‘Family First.’ And at that time, I said the family in America is under attack, that families in America are under attack. The family unit, the family values, everything that families stand for in America are under attack. This was 20 years ago. Let me tell you, it is so much worse now than it was then,” he said.
McGraw said the way social media sites act is a major threat to children.
“People don’t understand algorithms, including me. But I got myself in touch with experts that do understand this, and good example of what I’m talking about,” he said.
“Research was done where they put together some accounts, put a girl’s name on it, 14 years old, just her name, 14 years old, opened this account. And within a matter of a few hours, she started getting targeted with toxic information. By that, I mean, information that led her to eating disorder sites, suicidality sites, different kinds of things that were really unhealthy,” he said.
Honestly, these topics are not discussed nearly enough. It appears that the mental health crisis in this country is simply being addressed by administering medication to children instead of addressing the core issue.
