New York Post
@nypost·2.4M subscribers·43.2K videos
Parents of children victimized on social media share horror stories with CEOs in Senate hearing
Posted
February 1, 2024
Views
731
Likes
13
Comments
7
Engagement
February 1, 2024
731
13
7
2.74%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
0:40Now PlayingParents of children victimized on social media shamed the CEOs of America’s most prominent platforms as they entered a Senate hearing Wednesday — with many family members holding pictures of their deceased or scarred children while an emotional impact video was played.
A crowd of forlorn parents lined the front gallery of the packed Senate Judiciary Committee chamber as Committee members grilled the executives over their failure to protect underage users on their platforms.
An audible hiss spread from the gallery as the CEOs filed into their seats and the parents skewered them with penetrating glares.
On hand at the hearing were: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel, and Discord CEO Jason Citron.
Once the execs entered, the crowd raised photos of their children who had either committed suicide or been psychologically damaged after being victimized by predators they met on Facebook and Instagram.
Read more at
#senate #hearing #meta #facebook #tiktok #snap #discord #twitter
The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Subscribe to New York Post Sports
Catch the latest news here
Follow The New York Post on:
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
