San Francisco: The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord will testify earlier than the US Senate on January 31, 2024 throughout a listening to about on-line youngster sexual exploitation.
US Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chair and Rating Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced that listening to over the tech large’s “failure to guard” children on-line.
“We have identified from the start that our efforts to guard kids on-line could be met with hesitation from Massive Tech,” the senators mentioned in a joint assertion.
“They lastly are being compelled to acknowledge their failures with regards to defending children. Now that each one 5 corporations are cooperating, we sit up for listening to from their CEOs. Mother and father and youngsters demand motion,” they added.
The CEOs of X, Discord, and Snap will testify pursuant to subpoenas issued by the Committee, following repeated refusals over weeks of negotiations by the three Massive Tech leaders to testify.
The CEOs of Meta and TikTok voluntarily agreed to testify on the listening to. “After we held our first listening to on defending kids on-line with consultants and advocates earlier this 12 months, Massive Tech griped about not getting an invite. We promised them that their time would come. However after they have been supplied their probability to testify, some corporations outright refused to make their CEOs out there,” the senators famous.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from the next 5 CEOs: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X; Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok; Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap and Jason Citron, CEO of Discord.
