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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Mark Zuckerburg apologises to families at US Senate hearing on child safety

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to families at a tense US Senate hearing, about the impact social media has on children.

US senators on Wednesday grilled leaders of the biggest social media companies and said Congress must quickly pass legislation, as one lawmaker accused the companies of having "blood on their hands" for failing to protect children from escalating threats of sexual predation on their platforms.

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