Testimony before the Joint Study Committee on Effects of Media on Minors

Dear Co-Chair Hughes, Co-Chair Patterson, and Committee Members,

My name is Zach Whiting, and I am a policy director and senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Thank you for holding this hearing and for the opportunity to testify. The Foundation is incredibly grateful for the tremendous work the Legislature and each committee member has done over the past few sessions to keep kids safe, particularly from the serious impacts and harms of certain forms of media.