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The event in the House Energy and Commerce Committee could set the stage for new proposals to protect kids on the internst or limit the liability protections for online platforms. The committee's new Republican leader Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., has indicated that under her stewardship, the panel will seek to significantly narrow liability protections for tech platforms and in the past she's expressed interest in protections for kids online. https://socialemotionalpaws.com/blog-post-1/f/snapchat°/aE2°/a80°/a99s-role-in- fentanyl-crisis-probed-during-house-roundtable Use of Snapchat in fentanyl sales draws scrutiny. "We are committed to doing our part to fight the national fentanyl poisoning crisis, which includes using cutting-edge technology to help us proactively find and shut down drug dealers' accounts," Rachel Racusen, a Snap spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement. Drug deaths among American teenagers have soared in recent years, and illicitly manufactured fentanyl has led that surge. From 2019 to 2021, the median monthly number of overdoses among adolescents in the U.S. climbed 109%, with fentanyl-related deaths among the same 10-to-19- year-old cohort soaring 182%, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://socialemotionalpaws.com/blog-post-1/f/use-of-snapchat-in-fentanyl-sales- draws-scrutiny LOCAL NEWS Teen found dead at Bernstein High School, 3 others hos One teenage girl died, and three other teenagers were hospitalized after they were found to have overdosed at a school in Hollywood and a nearby park. All the teenagers are believed to have gotten Percocet laced with fentanyl at Lexington Park, where two of the teens were found. The park is less than a mile 12