01/31/2024

Lawmakers Say Social Media CEOs Have ‘Blood’ on Their Hands

They accused them of not protecting minors' interests on their platforms

Senators accused five major tech platforms Wednesday of facilitating child sexual abuse online, comparing the risks faced by consumers to the dangers that recently confronted passengers on aircraft made by embattled manufacturer Boeing.

The high-profile hearing — featuring testimony from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew, Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel, Discord’s Jason Citron and X’s (formerly Twitter) Linda Yaccarino — is the culmination of years of unsuccessful attempts by lawmakers to pass new federal safeguards to stamp out child sexual abuse material online, or CSAM.

The problem has long bedeviled leaders in Silicon Valley and Washington, and tech companies are facing fresh political pressure to clamp down on such content.

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