YouTube, TikTok and Snap will have to testify before Congress over kids' safety by abebrown716
Transportation Subcommittee during a hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' at the Russell Senate Office Building on October 05, 2021 in Washington, DC.earlier this month will next try to do the same to several other social media giants.
YouTube, TikTok and Snap executives will head to Capitol Hill next Tuesday to answer questions from the Senate Commerce Committee, which plans to ask about how those platforms safeguard their young users. It previously hosted a length session with Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen, asking her to explain the contents of a massive trove of internal documents that she leaked.
“Recent revelations about harm to kids online show that Big Tech is facing its Big Tobacco moment—a moment of reckoning,” says Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic chair of the subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety and data security. “We need to understand the impact of popular platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube on children and what companies can do better to keep them safe.
Facebook has so far faced the brunt of criticism from lawmakers and other observers who fear that social media companies are hurting young users in their efforts to keep engaged. But Facebook isn’t the only company eager to capture the attention of pre-teens and teenagers, and much of what has driven Facebook to act aggresively in courting young people is the competition from YouTube, Snap and TikTok.
Haugen’s disclosures has seemed to rekindle interest in Washington, D.C. in drafting new regulations over Big Tech, discussions that have drawn bipartisan support in the past but
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