They’re common names, especially in homes with kids, and the heads of those social media companies including TikTok and Facebook were grilled on Capitol Hill. The explosive hearing Wednesday focused on the sexual exploitation of children through social media and how their companies were responding.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was about as bipartisan as it gets as the CEOs faced tough questions from both sides of the aisle.
Victims and advocates for children surrounded the CEOs as they faced lawmakers. Discord, X, and Snap were all represented along with TikTok and Facebook. Family members held up pictures of their loved ones who were harmed in incidents involving social media as the CEOs addressed members of Congress.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so but you have blood on your hands. You have a product that’s killing people,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to applause from the packed hearing room.
The focus of the grilling centered around social media content containing sexual exploitation of children across various platforms. The hearing also veered into how those apps police, or in many cases don’t police content that could cause a child to harm themselves.
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