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 Tik-Tock 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 Tik-T. You had the CEO of Tic-Toc. 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 and you have to picture the hearing room so it's just a very

large hearing room it's the hearing room where we do for example hearings on

Supreme Court justices. So it's it's 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 predators had approached them online.

In many instances, predators will do things like convincing young

young children convincing teenagers to send them

compromising pictures to send them naked photographs and then these

scammers will often blackmail the the kids and threaten we're going to

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