Congress Won’t Let TikTok Forget About China

Senators grilled the CEOs of Meta Platforms, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord for four hours at a hearing about child sexual exploitation online on Wednesday, criticizing how their platforms allowed child sexual abuse material to spread and enabled the extortion of young people. The senators used the opportunity to jab at executives —“You have blood on your hands,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—and quiz them about whether they would support a raft of bills designed to …

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