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Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to Parents Whose Kids Were Harassed and Exploited on Social Media: ‘I’m Sorry for Everything You’ve All Gone Through’


Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to families of kids who were victims of online abuse and harm at a Senate hearing.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company has been accused of failing to take actions to protect children on its social networks, apologized to families of kids who were victims of online abuse and harm. Zuckerberg, during a Senate hearing Wednesday, directly addressed parents who said their children suffered harassment and exploitation on social media. An internal Meta presentation from 2021 found that children on Instagram and Facebook were frequent targets of sexual harassment, according to documents released as part of a lawsuit filed in December by the state of New Mexico that alleged Meta’s platforms recommend sexual content to underage users and promote underage accounts to adult predators.

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