The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Jan. 31 called “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,” in which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the harms social media companies like his have caused families.
Andrew Selepak, a social media professor at the University of Florida, told NTD that internal documents at Meta have shown that the company is reluctant to protect young social media users for fear of hurting their bottom line.