The social media hearings at Congress.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The social media hearings in Congress. On Wednesday, a group of executives from Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord, X (formerly known as Twitter), and other social media companies testified in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the threats of social media and child exploitation. The hearing began with testimony from victims who said they or their children had been exploited on these platforms. Parents who had lost children to suicide held up photos of their children throughout the hearings.
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| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Monday, February 5th. Today we are going to be talking about the social media hearings. I'm not really sure what else to call these, but basically a bunch |
| 1:13.0 | of executives from some of the biggest social media platforms in the world testified before |
| 1:18.2 | Congress last week. We're going to talk about why and what happened. Before we jump in, a quick |
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