Senators castigated Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other technology executives Wednesday over child sexual exploitation issues on social media, saying the companies have reaped profits, failed to regulate themselves and left children without proper protections.
The hearing transformed into a moment of reckoning of sorts for the company officials, with lawmakers contending that the platforms have harmed children and not protected kids from online dangers like drug dealers and sextortion, leading to their deaths.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said. “You have a product that’s killing people.”
