Social Media CEOs Cannot Say They Support New Regulations Focused on Child Sexual Exploitation

At a hearing focused on stepping up liability social media and technology companies would face for the actions of their users, CEOs didn’t support new rules.

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Leading social media company CEOs faced probing questions over their safety policies on Capitol Hill during a Jan. 31 hearing on online child sexual exploitation.

The session, held by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, grilled TikTok Inc. CEO Shou Chew, Discord Inc. CEO Jason Citron, Snap Inc. CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel, X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino, and Meta Platforms Inc. founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the harms the committee alleges the leading social media and online communications platforms are allowing to befall children in the United States.