Top tech CEOs are being grilled in Washington by lawmakers, who say the companies have failed to protect children from being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation on their websites.
Executives include Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, X’s Linda Yaccarino and TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew.
The social media apps have “given predators powerful new tools to exploit children,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the kick off of the Judiciary Senate Committee hearing on Wednesday. He noted that the powerful apps “have changed the way we live, work and play.”
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