He was eight years old the first time he logged onto Roblox. He was fifteen when his mother called the platform to ask why her son was in the hospital. They say the company sent her a copy-paste email with a suicide hotline number. Nothing else. Now 22, Michael ... known online as "Schlep” ... says he was groomed on Roblox as a child by a developer the platform promoted and profited from. He says he spent two years running sting operations on the platform that hurt him, getting six predators arrested and protecting children across the country. Michael says the social media’s response was to ban him, sent a cease-and-desist, and accused him of acting like a predator himself. Dr. Phil sits down with Michael and his attorney Steven Vanderporten ...who represents over 3000+ survivors who say they were exploited on on this platform, alongside Mark Lanier, the trial attorney who recently made history when a Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately designing their platforms to addict children, with malice, fraud, and oppression. With over 100 federal Roblox cases now consolidated in court and 2,300 more pending against Meta, the question is no longer whether these platforms are dangerous. A jury already answered that. The question now is: what are you going to do about it?

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Dr. Phil is discussing how predators are using AI technology to create fake sexually explicit images of young women, men, and children, only to share them online for anyone to see. Dr. Phil will speak with Brooke, and her daughter Bekah, who at only 17 years old learned that someone had stolen photos of her off social media, and digitally altered them to create nude pornographic images of her, and post them online. Find out why Bekah has decided to speak publicly about what happened to her for the first time. Plus, Dr. Phil will speak with Anna, and her daughter Elliston, who was only 14 years old when she learned a classmate had created nude images of her and eight of her friends, and then attempted to share them with as many people as possible. Learn how Elliston, along with her mother, Anna, became instrumental in helping get the Take it Down Act recently signed into federal law – a law that protects anyone victimized by non-consensual intimate images shared online.

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America is more divided than ever. From the deadly mosque shooting in San Diego… to a congressional candidate calling for “American Zionists” to be locked up… to a grown man accused of trying to “beat the gay” out of a small child. What is happening to this country? Who profits from outrage? How much blame does the media deserve? Why are Americans filled with so much hate? And most importantly — how do we stop the madness? Dr. Phil breaks down the psychology of hate, toxic media, fear, division, and what happens when a society loses empathy. The United States. Not the Disunited States.

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Dr. Phil uncovers the hidden dangers tied to today’s explosion of at-home injections — from insulin and GLP-1s to life-saving emergency medications.

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Since the Supreme Court allowed states to legalize sports betting 8 years ago, the industry has exploded with over $160 billion dollars legally bet on sports last year … especially with the introduction of mobile and online sports books. Many claim the legalization has allowed betting on teams, and even individual players, to not only become the new normal, but an accepted part of sports culture. Some experts claim this normalization, along with the online accessibility, and marketing centered around sports betting, could be leading to a health crisis among young male adults – a group who are reported to have the highest sports gambling rates. Dr. Phil speaks with Mason, a 21-year-old college senior who is a popular sports betting influencer who says although he believes the industry targets young adults, particularly colleges students, he says it’s unfair to blame the sports betting industry for gambling addiction. Dr. Phil will also speak with Dustin, a young man who says betting on sports started off as innocent fun, but then snowballed into a powerful addiction that saw him betting nearly a quarter of a million dollars in just 3 years. Now, Dustin says it’s been 212 days since he last placed a sports bet, find out how betting sobriety has changed his life. Plus, Dr. Phil will speak with Kyle, a college student sports journalist who knows the topic of sports betting on his college campus well. Find why Kyle says prop betting on an individual athlete’s performance is very popular among college students.

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China may only own “1%” of U.S. farmland — but this isn’t about acres. It’s about access. Farmland near military bases. Land near critical infrastructure. A growing espionage threat hiding in plain sight. That’s why Senator Pete Ricketts is pushing the PLOT Act — the Property Location Oversight and Transparency Act.

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At least 11 scientists and government-linked researchers connected to sensitive U.S. programs have reportedly gone missing or turned up dead. Some worked in nuclear research. Others in aerospace, national security, advanced technology, or space programs. The White House says the cases are being reviewed. Yet much of the legacy media has barely touched the story.

Are these cases connected? Or is this all a coincidence? To be clear: there is no confirmed evidence of a conspiracy. But when this many highly specialized researchers end up dead or missing in a relatively short period of time, people are going to ask questions. Here’s The Real Story.

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Dr. Christine Marie, who along with her husband Tolga helped expose a man named, Samuel Bateman, who claimed to be the self-proclaimed prophet of a religious polygamous sect, known as the FLDS. Samuel Bateman claimed the group’s leader, Warren Jeffs, had died while in prison, and he was the now the prophet. It is reported that Bateman formed his own group within the FLDS, where his male followers not only gave their adult wives to the him, but also their underage daughters, as young as 9 years old, to become Bateman’s “wives,” and who he would sexually abuse. Dr.Phil will speak with Dr. Christine, who along with her husband Tolga, would earn the trust of Samuel Bateman and his followers, and be invited to spend one and a half years filming hundreds of hours of footage with them. Dr. Christine and Tolga would eventually begin secretly working with the FBI, while continuing to be embedded within the sect. Samuel Bateman would eventually be arrested and sentenced to 50 years in prison for the crimes he committed against his underage wives. Many of his adult male and female followers were also held to justice. Christine, Tolga, and their footage are featured in the Netflix 4 part documentary series, “Trust Me: The False Prophet,” which chronicles the rise and fall of Samuel Bateman, and is streaming now on Netflix.

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