JUST IN – Sen. Lindsey Graham to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: “You have blood on your hands. You have a product that is killing people.” pic.twitter.com/TE8NaimeI0
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) January 31, 2024
NEW: Josh Hawley goes off on Mark Zuckerberg and forces him to stand up, turn around and apologize to families who were impacted by child exploitation on META platforms.
Humiliating.
“You didn’t take any action. You didn’t fire anybody.”
“There’s families of victims here… pic.twitter.com/YqRfWRVSlk
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 31, 2024
Just now…Senator Ted Cruz called out Mark Zuckerberg for his lack of stopping Child Pornography on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/1OTimfLRv7
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 31, 2024
Zuckerberg is constantly being bullied.
How the hell can he be responsible for what billions of people do on his website?
It’s a “platform,” remember? He’s actually, literally not responsible for what people do there. It’s in Section 230.
The chief executives of social media companies Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord faced tough questions on their efforts to combat online child sexual exploitation at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
Senator Dick Durbin, the Judiciary Committee’s Democratic chairman, cited statistics from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children nonprofit group that showed financial “sextortion,” in which a predator tricks a minor into sending explicit photos and videos, had skyrocketed last year.
“This disturbing growth in child sexual exploitation is driven by one thing: changes in technology,” Durbin said during the hearing.
As the hearing kicked off on Wednesday, the committee played a video in which children spoke about being victimized on the social media platforms.
“I was sexually exploited on Facebook,” said one child in the video, who appeared in shadow.
In the hearing room, dozens of parents stood waiting for the CEOs to enter, holding pictures of their children.
“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,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, referring to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “You have a product that’s killing people.”
These people are always going to whine about “think of the children.”
Hawley and Graham both support the mass slaughter of children in Gaza, but when it comes to “cyber threats,” all of a sudden it’s a great moral outrage.
Moral outrage is so exhausting.
No one is actually morally outraged. They just pretend they are to try to get power over people who don’t demonstrate enough moral outrage. It’s basically a drama competition, to see who can pretend to be the most morally outraged.
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“Open Source AGI” – Mark Zuckerberg is going to war with OpenAI 🔥 pic.twitter.com/f9Jik1IbYt
— 1LittleCoder💻 (@1littlecoder) January 18, 2024