Social Media Senate Hearing: Point Scoring and Talking Points

It’s doubtful much of substance was achieved from today’s Senate hearing into “big tech and the online child sexual exploitation crisis,” starring a lineup of social media CEOs. As is typical, the CEOs recited jargonistic talking points and floundered when a cavalcade of senators demanded yes-or-no answers to a variety of questions. The senators made some good points about the now widely chronicled harms young people experience on Instagram, TikTok or Snap. But there was also a fair degree of …

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