JILLIAN MICHAELS: Big Tech built a digital drug — and our kids are hooked

"Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it."

In the 1990s, America watched tobacco executives raise their right hands before Congress and swear nicotine was not addictive. We now know they were lying through their teeth. Internal documents later proved cigarettes were chemically engineered to maximize dependency and deliberately marketed to children to create "replacement smokers" for a dying customer base.

Today, we are watching the same lie unfold in real time. Only now, the product is not Marlboro.