Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives to their faces, “You have blood on your hands” and that their product “is killing people.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives to their faces, “You have blood on your hands” and that their product “is killing people.”
The CEOs of the largest social media companies testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about online child exploitation.
The CEOs in the committee hot seat were Zuckerberg of Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram; Evan Spiegel of Snap; Shou Chew of TikTok Inc.; Linda Yaccarino of X Corp., the social media platform formerly known as Twitter; and Jason Citron of Discord Inc.
“Social media companies, as they are currently designed and operated, are dangerous products,” said Graham, R-S.C., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “They are destroying lives, threatening democracy itself.
