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Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Families Of Victims Of Online Child Exploitive Content After Senator Presses Him To Apologize — Update


Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino and other tech industry leaders faced a grilling from lawmakers today as they appeared for a Senate hearing on the online exploitation of children. S…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) blamed the tech platforms at the outset for allowing the exploitation to proliferate, while dismissing the latest efforts the companies have taken to boost safety. You have a product that is killing people,” said the top Republican on the committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), told Zuckerberg, as he sat at the witness table. He called for the repeal of Section 230, the provision of a 1996 law that shielded platforms from liability for the third party content posted on their sites.

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