Senators accused five major tech platforms of facilitating child sexual abuse online, comparing the risks faced by consumers to the dangers that recently confronted passengers on aircraft made by embattled manufacturer Boeing. The high-profile hearing — featuring testimony from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, Discord’s Jason Citron and X’s Linda Yaccarino — is the culmination of years of unsuccessful attempts by lawmakers to pass new federal safeguards to stamp out child sexual abuse material online, or CSAM.
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