Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared at a U.S. Senate hearing and apologized to the families who claimed they were harmed by social media, saying, “I'm sorry.” The senator also lashed out, saying, “You killed an individual.”
Reuters and the BBC reported on the thirty first (local time) that CEOs of major social platforms similar to Meti, TikTok, Snap, X (Twitter), and Discord attended a U.S. Senate hearing and received intense criticism for 4 hours.
Based on this, this hearing was to deal with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated child abuse images, which have recently develop into a serious problem in the USA.
As well as, the goal was to seek out out what the corporate's opinions were on the bill that may hold platforms answerable for Web posting materials currently pending before the U.S. Congress. The US applies Article 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which exempts operators from legal liability for content posted on online platforms.
On today, families who claimed that their children committed suicide or harmed themselves as a result of social media appeared on the scene and raised various questions and opinions.
Amongst these, arrows were focused on CEO Zuckerberg. After being asked to apologize to his family during a conversation with Rep. Josh Hawley, Zuckerberg stood up and said, “I'm sorry for all the pieces you've passed through.” As well as, Congressman Lindsey Graham fiercely criticized CEO Zuckerberg, saying, “You’ve got blood in your hands,” that’s, he killed an individual himself.
As well as, TikTok CEO Shoujichu was questioned about whether he shared American users' data with China, and Discord CEO Jason Citron didn’t immediately reply to a matter about whether he supported the laws, but was told by Representative Graham, “I don't want these people to unravel the issue.” “If we wait, we are going to die.”
The businesses also disclosed how many individuals they hired to filter content on their platforms. Meta and TikTok each said they’d 40,000 people, Snap had 2,300 people, X had 2,000 people, and Discord had even fewer.
Experts didn’t give a positive response to today's hearing.
“As we identified within the hearing, there’s virtually no regulation of social media corporations,” said Matt Navarra, a social media industry analyst. “However the few times I’ve seen these hearings, they rarely produce any significant or substantive regulation.”
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com