Watch again: TikTok, X, Meta, and Snap CEOs testify at Senate child safety hearing 

Ironically these senators are using facebook for their political campaigns

How smart this is. It starts with parents showing their children and develops into politics... this setup was never about the children 😢

Everyone that has gotten into a car accident, sue the car company for even letting you buy the car.

Mr Chew got the worst grilling but he stayed cool under the circumstances

Failed parenting. That is it. There are cliffs on earth. If their kids fell off it, will they blame the earth? If their kids drown, will they blame the water? They have to do parenting. Spend time with their kids and teach them value for life. That would prevent them from opening their clothes and pants in front of randon strangers online. There are books, but if they burn the book and bring the house down, are you going to blame the publisher?

How come parents are not being held liable for their own children safety?? Its the parents #1 responsibly and priority and obligation in this world to do everything they can to protect their children, yet they choose to give teenagers the unlimited freedom to do whatever they want? Everyone knows that social media is dangerous. It's not "big techs" job to protect your children! ITS YOUR JOB AS A PARENT!!

Let's blame the knife manufacturer for so many people getting stabbed everyday.

i think it very inappropriate that Mr. chew is being ask about where he and his family lived, or did it came to the U.S legally, those question HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEXUAL EXPOITATION OF CHILDREN ON SOCIAL MEDIA APP!!!

Don't blame those CEO blame the parents who don't educate or monitor their childrens online use

Senators, explain to me why these horrible crime rate is HIGER in the USA compared to Singapore when the teens have the same access to phones, internet, moreover these platforms in both countries.

This is ridiculous, nothing but a bully session. Their mind and agenda were already set. They didn’t really want to here from anybody. Asking questions after questions and noone never gets to answer any of them. I understand how social media plays a role in being present in the choices that someone makes that could lead to depression and even suicide. But ultimately it comes down to choice and the luxury of free will. Non of the ceo’s chove their platforms down anybodys throat or hold a gun to their heads. Every single one of them choose to go to their respective appstores to download them and also made choices on how they use these apps.liquor and drugs are available and if you choose to take drugs or drink, getting into it won’t be hard at all. Blaming a social app for someones choice is crazy to me.

All i know after this is singaporian = chinese = china = ccp = communist = URSS = Stalin = Poutine = Russia wtf?

Cotton forcing Tiananmen Square topic onto a Singaporean. A less convoluted and more respectful question, to ask someone of a different nationality that, would be to ask Senator Cotton if his last name was inherited, and if so were his forefathers and ancestors involved in the cotton industry? And continue to ask, what else happened in the cotton industry in American history? Who were the main source of labor?

in my opinion children should be banned from having the facebook Tiktok and any ther App under the ages, and especially their parents should be keep an eye on their children like how to used the internet correctly🙏🙏

Instead of political brinkmanship and humiliating the CEOs (the worse reserved for a Singaporean CEO), why didn't the Senators ask the CEOs how they can help with the child safety problem via legislation?

The senators and "responsible parents" are just playing the blame game. Due to their failures. It's like blaming the knife manufacturer for the stabbing murders. Social media can be dangerous to children. But.... It's not just children but it's to all people. Too much if everything good is bad that's how it's been and that's how it will always be. Food is a good thing right? But too much of it can cause some health complications and obesity. Since it becomes a life threatening situation it is the obligation for the person eating (if he wants to continue to live) to cut down on the food intake and exercise and be on a diet. That doesn't mean stop eating. If what Mr. Ossof was saying to Zuckerberg applied to this scenario, he'd basically be telling Zuckerberg that "Hey! Food is getting people fat, so in order to cut that down, make food less delicious!" Which is just outrageous! It's not the fault of the apps or any of the CEO's. They're doing all that they can but it's the duty and responsibility of the parents to ensure the safety of their children by setting down some ground rules, giving them strict screen time, daily advice and so on... So the parents whose children committed suicide because of the "apps" should CAN IT! because they're the ones who've failed their children. And maybe if the economy was not the mess it is today, parents wouldn't have to work double jobs to survive and would actually have time to guide they're kids. (And I'm just 16!)

I wonder if the senators shaming the CEO’s deleted their Facebook & X accounts?! Before starting this meeting… I’m sorry to say but this issue originates at home… with the parents or whoever is giving a kid a cell or access to media…

The senators clearly discriminate with Tiktok CEO

When the children are going through all that suicidal thoughts and all that what were the parents doing about it just sitting and waiting for the inevitable to happen?

100% the parents fault. They are the ones that need to control their children that cant think for themselves.

You cant blame these companies and CEOs for the parents shortcomings.

Its funny how the ones who got subpoenaed barley got any questions thrown at them

It would be interesting if all social media platforms reached a common agreement to withdraw their businesses from the United States. I would be curious to see how people would react, perhaps expressing their dissatisfaction or concerns. In others words I bet this same people will be crying and complaining

This is such an odd subject. Are you going to sue Verizon if your kid texts a child molester? How exactly is it their problem? They all seem to be taking fairly reasonable steps to prevent kids from being exploited, but how much can they actually do? In the internet age there is always going to be a way to circumvent these and predators will find those ways around. So they are going to allow the victim to sue the platform they were contacted on rather than going directly after the predator? With the overseas predators it's obviously significantly more difficult to go after the predator, but they do it by design because these people are smarter than they are given credit for. The parents need to step their game up. I see so many little kids being parented by an iPad instead of by a human, but people are always looking to shift blame. I can tell you that my kids wont be on these apps at all, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy a flip phone that can only call and text until they are old enough to actually take on the responsibility of a smart phone. I don't care how embarrassing it may be.

It so pathetic how some senators cut off the answers and use this topic to advertise how many bills they have passed. How can you be so cynic to politicize this issue? Only yes/no questions, with enforced lack of context. That's such a weak, self righteous/populist rhetoric driven by emotions. I'm not defending any of the CEO's but we deserve a way more responsible approach to collaborate on solving these problems. Happily some senators are way more intelligent in their interrogation ways.

Mark made a great suggestion (hr2 min 41)! These senators want to sue lol. Lets get real politicians & hold parents accountable.

Platforms are made for good use , but if u can't control ur own side of getting exposed to those brutal things in bad and trash way of using it then, U got no right of Blaming the CEO's!!!

1:11:09 It’s funny, because an Israeli TikTok employee resigned, saying that there was a problem with TikTok’s release, and TikTok must be held responsible. Then a U.S. congressman resigned because there was a problem with the entire Congress, so the entire United States should be held accountable ? What is this stupid question?

Social media is such an addictive platform and gives you anxiety if use excessively

doesn’t 230 mean companies don’t get to prosecute freedom of free but doesn’t exempt them from disgusting content?

Why do senators exhibit more restraint on TikTok and X during this particular hearing?

A sex offender can find anyway to hurt a child .. parents seem to always get blamed yet these companies always get a slap on their poor little hands .. no , they’re allowing all these crimes to happen .. enough is enough.. it’s not right to allow these innocent children to die or murder others .. you make billions and billions but yet you can’t protect these children and all the victims

I don't understand, why they don't catch the criminals who did rapist, etc but only blame the CEO and not doing act? Are the CEO have connection with the criminals?

Oh how sad it is that the US government cant afford to buy new mics that dont crack and make everyone's ears bleed with every word spoken into them. Very sad indeed. 😒

Mr. Graham's views on accountability of Big Tech are correct. Not only for Americans but for everyone worldwide.

Amen Mr. Graham you tell them someone has to be accountable for these family's that have lost family members to these platforms.

Nice to know that discord has no encryption. No more with it

You can't blame them but they can do better to prevent online sexual exploitation against children.

Why This is Happening after Israeli Conflicts with Palestine ? That Issue was started way back in 2005 may be ever prior to that.

All these companies owe me money. Tell them to transfer amount in my account now

I reported couple of videos that contains child pornography to facebook and FACEBOOK IGNORED IT, saying THE VIDEOS HAVE NOT VIOLATED THEIR POLICIES

I know this is about to piss a bunch of people off but I have to say it……Don’t allow your children to have social media. As parents and guardians WE have to parent and protect our children. It’s baffling to me that anyone would rely on a social media platform to do what WE should be doing. 1. Don’t allow your children on social media 2. Monitor closely what your children are doing online we have to except it’s on us as parents to parent and protect because they clearly aren’t going to. They are the biggest conglomerates in the world they don’t care as long as they meet their bottom line! Protect the children in your home because they won’t

Clearly this age of 13 is the issue. Simply raise the bar to 18. Anyone under 18 is a minor. Simple as that. Where do they get this 13 from? Under 13 shouldn’t even be online without parental supervision. 17 to 13 should have protected accounts that are verified. 18 and older, should not have sexually graphic material unless they are adult sites like porn. Never mix teen, child and adult material in the same places. WTF?

Talking about childrens using Social media, while other childrens with no phones are dying day by day in Palestiine, why dont you bring Nathanyahu besides those ceo's? as Ranking Member said, i'll take that as no!

it is always guilty, till proven innocent.

How come the law not catching up with gun dealers for all the shootings in America?

Blame the smart cell inventors, don't blame this geniuses .

Mr Padilla and Mr Tillis handled it really great and professional in my opinion. While other senators made themselves look like clowns in some way. Still, I am greatful for this whole debate, that is rising the conciousness about the topic and as many others in the comments say, we all agree that we must protect our children, espacially as parents, but also everyone who is not a parent or in another situation. This is a very good and important first step. We all must remember that Social media is a really new phenomenon to humanity, which means we first have to figure out how to handle it properly. We all know about how bad it is, but reality shows that 95% of the people you see in daily life use their smartphones all the time. We really need education on how the human psychologie works and how algorithems work to catch us. And how to escape them. The knowledge is there. We need to teach it. Take the books by Allan Carr for example. This is critical knowledge to quit bad habits. Or the 1% Method. And many more. Hope everyone takes more responsability for his/herself and others to protect him/herself and others.

Do their lawyers advise them not to answer yes or no questions?

Mrs Blackburn was the worst one for me. She didn't ask any questions, just gave a speech

Well it is ridiculous to have this hearing in the first place....but at least this will creates awareness about safety and ethical use of social media and perhaps AI for all...period

You don't need Trust and Safety Experts who own shares in Big Tech. That's a conflict of interest.

CRAZY

gonna be using child safety to regulate the internet? hmmm me thinks so.

America is a very strange country. The system is bizarre, senators asking inept questions because of their own poor understanding its all just a I'm doing this for the people and ranting so it looks good on the TV in reality they couldn't give a toss.

It's interesting to see the difference between Republicans and Democrats during a bipartisan hearing. The Republicans seem to get a lot more passionate and ask significantly more hard hitting questions.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I'm sorry but making Mark apologize to these families for THEIR OWN NEGLIGENCE is pretty dumb. Just because he paved the way for social media doesn't mean he tells you to use it in the first place/how to use it. It's like not wearing a seatbelt then getting mad that you flew out of your car.

Some of them have (except tiktok banned) biggest market in India. Most of teenagers are from India still our MPs is sleeping.

Being an Australian, I'm glad our government isn't as idiotic and blatantly xenophobic as the majority of senators in Congress. "Senators" like Tim Cotton should be kicked off their seats despite being so "qualified" for the job.

They subpoenaed their asses to be present and they shamelessly start with I am honoured and pleased to be here to talk about this important issue!

28:59 This is the reason for this drama.

It’s insane…

THEY ALSO CAN BLAME SOCIAL PLATFORMS FOR THESE HORRIBLE THINGS BUT EVERY ONE OF THEM BE TAKING FUNDS OVER AND OVER FROM THE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN GUILTY OF THIS FOR NOT YEARS CENTURIES NO ONE CAN REFUTE MY COMMENT AT ALL

Thanks!

It is the responsibility of parents and personal users, if it goes this way, then US and UK has to apologize entire world every day

These people ruined my life for this trash you uno wow on the next panel they're talking about how they're destroying young people's lives bro they've wasted a whole 5 years of my life since i was 23 uno set up for failure is another word I've got youths looking like me rapping like me on the radio lime bikes on the street and I'm here struggling to eat it's that real

Tom never had this problem with “Myspace” lmaooo

If public policy is supposed to "step in" to temper the inherent incentive that corporations have to grow exponentially regardless of their impact on the well-being of consumers and communities, then WHERE have all these senators been for the last 20 years? They certainly haven't been stepping in with meaningfully ethical public policies, but now it's time to yell from the moral high ground as if most of ya'll haven't been flaming hypocrites since before you were elected to office.

Parents cant watch their childs every move because lifestyles are fast pace and sometimes hectic. Plus theres too many sickos out their preying on children. Solution: all children dont have social accounts untill their 16.

Maybe America is lacking of money

All these fancy government officials are hyper focused on the age issue. I wonder if any of them have considered that children are smart and can find ways to bypass regulations? I’m not much of a social media user myself but as far as I know a child can literally just change their age to where there isnt/less restrictions

"Of course we will work with you senator! The OS for our killer robot army isnt quite ready yet..."😅

If i were Mr. Shuo i would have asked if we could blame the parents and American gun laws also. Its like an alcoholic blaming the liquor.

This doesn't make sense . Then go sue the car company for accident

Isn’t it about child safety on the internet? Why the senators bring political topics into the hearing? I don’t think children care about any of these topics tbh.

Why even bother with a hearing when the the Senate Committee does nothing to penalized these platform. Many of these platform lobbied and can make politician look the other way.

As much as I would love age verification to happen, t he issue with age verification is that it would not allow anyone who is undocumented on social media. That’s a huge issue in itself.

This is a very shame show. It's absurd how they invited company owners and forgot the companies who manufactured the phones used by the victims. It is awful how the parents of these kids are left without care and protection at home but they go as far as trying to sue the products. Let's blame the knife company for selling knives used in stabbing. We should sue the ladder companies after we fall from them or sue a car company after a car accident.

I cannot understand how annoying and stupid some of the republican senators are. how can you ask the question and then answer it yourself after interrupting the other person. completely idiotic behavior. Mr Graham could learn a thing or two about behaving himself from Chairman Durbin. The same goes for Mr Cotton

Mr. Durbin is right. So true.

Ban everything politicians and live your life. There is no restrain in kids using social media all day long by their patents.

Senator Hawley you are right about tik-tok👍

Mr. Graham is right. So true.

With Meta and Tiktok , all senators talk about politics not about safety of children

Shut them all down if they do not abide by the Laws of our Country

Pointing out problems doesn’t mean that they’ll be solved, if they want actual change they should propose solutions instead and listen instead of trying to catch a mistake in one response

Wait, if the point of this hearing is keeping kids from being groomed, where tf are the ceo of Discord?

Putting those who are in weaker position (child) in front so that they can blackmail others, what a joke. It's never about child, thet just need a reason, and a political show.

Make social media 18+ case closed

If there is a problem with META personal profile like forgetting a password of a phone number that no longer exists, you cannot even talk to a human to solve a problem. It's fckn disappointing for a billion dollar company who cannot even hire human services to assist other humans.

where is ceo of reddit and the creator of 4chan ? worst 2 social platforms

Don't use their services and that's a wrap, money talks bs walks. Your wallet is power !

I hate that congress actually has me rooting for big tech :(

Parents outof responsibility

I loce Mark, hope he's staying strong in this time

Lord let what needs to be heard be heard and what needs to be seen be clearly seen in your name father God amen

Damn ridiculous

Hope you get this done. An them platform's need to know kids lie about there age to get on the app.

I don’t understand what’s so hard about using AI to block nudes from being sent or received unless going through age verification.