From allowing right-wing extremists to organize an insurrection at the Capitol and facilitating the spread of disinformation on COVID-19 to knowing Instagram is toxic for teen girls to hate speech and violent threats aimed at people of color every day, Facebook is a threat to children, our society, and our democracy. The recent testimony provided by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen before Congress confirmed what many of us feared: Facebook doesn't care about its own role

Of any age group in the United States, older adults and the elderly (85 years and older) have the highest risk of suicide. Though only accounting for 12% of the population, the elderly account for 18% of suicide deaths. The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy also reports that the rates of elderly suicide are estimated to be under reported or incorrectly categorized by 40 percent or more due to “silent suicides”—overdoses, self-starvation, self-dehydration, a

"Gay, lesbian and bisexual youth attempt to take their lives at a rate four times higher than heterosexual teenagers, according to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that offers a national hotline and other suicide prevention efforts for young LGBT people... As the scientists wrote in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, students living in states where same-sex marriage was legalized saw a drop in suicide rates, compared to students living elsewhere (a critical point being that the scient