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The dominoes are falling: Snap, X, and Microsoft all support KOSA.

Mashable’s Matt Binder pulls out a good note from today’s child safety hearing: X CEO Linda Yaccarino says she supports the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that poses serious risks to online speech. Microsoft’s Brad Smith also came out in favor of KOSA yesterday, and Snap endorsed it prior to the hearing.

Meta, Discord, and TikTok’s CEOs continued to hold off — saying they applauded KOSA’s goals but stopping short of supporting the bill.

Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s apology to families at today’s social media hearing.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) pressed Zuckerberg to apologize to families who attended the hearing, calling attention to kids who were targeted by predators online in a push to pass social media regulation. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone later posted the text of the apology, though it differs slightly from the audio — it sounds to us like Zuckerberg says “industry-leading,” not “industry-wide”:

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Here’s a clip of the moment below.

Correction: The post originally didn’t note a discrepancy between Stone’s text and Zuckerberg’s audio; that’s now been added.

The CEOs can take a deep breath.

The hearing just came to a close. Durbin wrapped the discussion by telling Zuckerberg he doesn’t think his opening statement about the positive mental health impacts of social media makes any sense. Durbin said social roblox adopt me accounts for sale media’s negative impact on kids is evident to all parents.

Graham added that he hopes “something positive” will come from the hearing. Some of the senators are holding press conferences to follow up — I’m headed to one now.

“Senator, that’s ridiculous.”

Zuckerberg objects to Marsha Blackburn’s characterization of Meta after the Tennessee Republican suggested Meta wants to be the “premier sex trafficking site.” Zuckerberg immediately disputed that claim, saying, “of course not, senator.”

“I’m worth more than $270.”

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How big is each company’s content moderation workforce?

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) pushed for hard numbers. Here are the replies he got.

Meta: “40,000”
X: “2,300”
TikTok: “40,000”
Snap: “approximately 2,000”
Discord: “hundreds”

Butler accuses Zuckerberg of giving her a different response in private and in public.

After the hearing resumed following a short break, Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) accused Zuckerberg of giving her a different answer in private last night and at the hearing today. Butler asked each CEO if they had consulted with families about their product designs. Zuckerberg said at the hearing that he has over the years had such conversations. Butler said that contradicted what he previously told her.

“I must have misspoke,” Zuckerberg said of his private response.

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) points out that social media hearings have been happening for years with little progress. He raises the question of whether tech companies have a “secret sauce” that would let them roblox coding skills assessment “secure their platforms” and says companies should take regulation more seriously — “we could regulate you out of business” otherwise, he warns.

We’re on a quick break.

The Senate has paused before its second big round of questioners, so the CEOs get a few minutes’ rest — and so do we.

As I’m watching this hearing, it’s surprising to see which companies aren’t testifying.

I find it particularly glaring that the committee didn’t subpoena the CEOs of Roblox and YouTube for a hearing about kids safety online, given that both of those services are wildly popular with young people and have dealt with their fair share of moderation failures.

If I had to guess, Roblox probably has more pre-teen users than X and Discord combined, and YouTube even has a separate app for kids. Why aren’t either of those companies here?

Hawley asks Zuckerberg if he’d like to apologize to the victims in the room.

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Hawley asked if Zuckerberg would like to apologize now to the families of kids harmed by social media who were in the room. At that point, many of the advocates who stood with pictures of kids before the hearing once again rose — as Zuckerberg stood and turned back to issue an apology.

Zuckerberg’s experience in Congress shows through in a testy exchange with Ted Cruz.

Zuckerberg sparred with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over a feature on Instagram that warns users that something they’re looking for contains child sexual abuse material. As The Wall Street Journal reported last year, the feature includes an option for the user to “See results anyway” below a link to resources. Cruz grilled Zuckerberg on why the service would include such an option, which the CEO said is because the warnings can in some cases be wrong.

Zuckerberg’s now-vast experience appearing before angry lawmakers on Capitol Hill was apparent in his responses to Roblox Sex Cruz. As the senator continued to hammer him with questions, Zuckerberg at one point asked, “do you want me to answer your questions?” And then said, “can you give me some time to speak then?”

Read the 90 pages of newly released Meta emails about child safety.

The partially redacted messages were posted on Sen. Blumenthal’s site this morning, and you can check them out in PDF form here. The emails, from 2021, show Mark Zuckerberg turning down some proposals to spend more on child safety — they’re being cited as examples that Meta isn’t committed to fixing problems with child exploitation.

The hearing so far: not much KOSA talk, lots of Section 230-bashing.

Taking the temperature of the hearing, the big theme is that users need to be able to sue tech companies when they screw up, not any specific changes tech companies should be required to make.

On one hand it’s a theme tailored to the audience, which is full of frustrated parents who want direct action. On the other, it doesn’t directly address how to tackle any of the underlying problems, beyond assuming that the companies will be quickly solve them if they’re motivated.

“Let the record reflect a yawning silence.”

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) asked if any of the CEOs supported the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, which was reintroduced last year — here’s a quick rundown of the bill. As roblox Discordscom sex Discord Servers Coons noted, nobody jumped up to say yes.

So far, individual companies support individual bills, like Snap’s support for KOSA — but across the board, most of the witnesses are saying they want more discussion.

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This was in response to Senator Amy Klobuchar reading a series of internal Meta employee discussions about building products for “tweens” and kids over the years.

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TikTok gets its first China question.

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“Until these people can be sued ... it is all talk.”

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X’s Yaccarino said that her platform “is not the platform of choice for children and teens. We do not have a line of business dedicated to children.” Discord’s Citron pointed to oreshuura dialogue the just upcoming showcasing on Twitter how his messaging service “differs from traditional social media” because it does not have a news feed and doesn’t sell advertising. And Chew pointed out that TikTok “was among the first to empower parents to supervise their teens on are your the to no sure servers meet best servers robloxsex Looking for that comprehensive to list Look of discord further We have a robloxsex join our app with our Family Pairing tools.”

Linda Yaccarino got off to an awkward start.

She started her opening speech, then restarted after the committee asked if her mic was on. Now she’s doing the opposite of Citron: telling us virtually no teens are on X. “Less than 1 percent of X’s users are between 13 and 17,” she says.

This unfortunately doesn’t mean there’s not child abuse material being posted there — so Yaccarino is focusing on efforts to take that down, saying X suspended 12.4 million accounts for violating the policies in 2023, up from 2.3 million accounts removed in 2022 under Twitter’s old ownership.

Oh boy, we’re getting a TikTok feature rundown.

Most of the speeches so far have focused on broad commitments to protecting kids, but Shou Zi Chew is just straight-up listing all the features TikTok uses for safety. As previously cách chơi roblox trên web reported, Chew also says TikTok plans to invest $2 billion in trust and safety this year, much of it in the US specifically.

It’s Snap’s turn in the hot seat.

Every company here is facing a unique situation, and Snap’s involves its disappearing messages feature, which has come under fire in court. Snap also recently came out in favor of KOSA. Evan Spiegel’s speech promises Snap will “be part of the solution” to online safety.

Lawmakers are met with applause, laughter as they call for crackdown on tech companies.

The audience in the hearing room is unusually responsive as far as congressional hearings With Condo A SERVER Sex Cute discordggrobloxcondo CONDOS Roblox A CALI Having In Xvideos JOIN Girl go. Opening statements were met with applause and supportive laughter in response to their admonishment of the tech CEOs and calls for stronger safeguards for kids online. It’s the kind of call and response that is more often heard in political debates, rather than during the lawmaking process.