Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, there was a

big hearing on Capitol Hill that dealt with big tech oversight. There were CEOs there from

Facebook and TikTok. And I want to start with Facebook Center. You had the opportunity to talk to

Mark Zuckerberg, specifically over an issue of child exploitation being

the material being shared on Facebook. Talk a little bit about why this hearing was so important.

Well, sure. Let me set the stage. So this was Wednesday morning. It was a hearing of five CEOs of

big tech. So you had Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram and others.

You had the CEO of TikTok.

You had the CEO of X, formerly Twitter.

You had the CEO of Snapchat and you had the CEO of Discord.

And they were all testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And the focus was the abuse of children.

And in particular, children being targeted by predators, by pedophiles, children being subject to extortion.

And you have to picture the hearing room.

So it's a very large hearing room.

It's the hearing room where we do, for example, hearings on Supreme Court justices.

So it's one of, if not the biggest hearing room on Capitol Hill.

It's got a big audience.

And in the audience, the room was filled.

It was standing room only with parents who had lost their children to suicide to abuse

who had been traumatized and abused online and and predators had approached them online in

many instances predators will do things like convincing young young children convincing

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