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Opinion: Do Harris, Trump have a plan to protect Americans online?

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Summary
Nutrition label

72% Informative

Gretchen Peters : Social media is infested with scammers, child sex abuse content, sextortion rackets, extremist activity and disinformation.

Peters : U.S. is losing about 22 teenagers every week to fentanyl poisoning.

She says neither candidate Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump is addressing the systemic reforms to our policies, laws and institutions in order to protect people’s safety, privacy and freedom both online and in real life.

Peters urges both candidates to pledge to appoint a Digital Tsar who will work with Congress and our federal agencies.

VR Score

72

Informative language

69

Neutral language

23

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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