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CEOs from Meta, TikTok, Snap, X and Discord head to Congress for kids’ online safety hearing
CEOs from some of the biggest social platforms will appear before Congress on Wednesday to defend their companies against mounting criticism that they
Tech companies sometimes get by sending legal counsel or a policy executive instead, but the latest hearing will feature Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok’s Shou Chew, Discord’s Jason Citron and Evan Spiegel of Snap. The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD expressed its concerns about the hearing and related legislation in a statement provided to TechCrunch, urging lawmakers to ensure that “proposed solutions be carefully crafted” to avoid negatively impacting the queer community. “KOSA is a needed corrective to social media platforms’ toxic business model, which relies on maximizing engagement by any means necessary, including sending kids down deadly rabbit holes and implementing features that make young people vulnerable to exploitation and abuse,” Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement provided to TechCrunch.
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