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Mark Zuckerberg is one of five tech bosses getting grilled at a US Senate hearing on child safety online.

We have heard examples of young people being exposed to the worst forms of harm on social media platforms, and parents overwhelmed with the responsibility of trying to protect their children. The many tools created by the tech companies to help have not solved the problem, and politicians have been unable to agree on legislation designed to enforce a safer experience, over a period of several years. But you have to wonder what the parents in the room today made of the admission by TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, who said his own children do not use his platform - because in Singapore, where they live, there is no version of it for under 13s.

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