META - X's Linda Yaccarino Mark Zuckerberg And Tech CEOs Unite To Support Legislation And Preview Policies In Senate Child Safety Hearing: Report | Benzinga
Top tech executives are scheduled to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety in social media and are expected to make unprecedented policy commitments and legislative endorsements.
What Happened: Linda Yaccarino of X, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (NASDAQ:META), and other CEOs from TikTok, Discord, and Snap (NYSE:SNAP) are set to discuss the impact of their platforms on children’s safety on Wednesday, reported NBC News.
These hearings have typically been confrontational, but this time, representatives from the tech firms suggest their CEOs will extend olive branches in the form of legislative support and policy assurances.
X’s head of U.S. and Canadian public policy, Wifredo Fernandez, revealed that CEO Yaccarino would endorse the SHIELD Act and other child safety legislation. The SHIELD Act, proposed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., aims to criminalize nonconsensual intimate images and sexualized depictions of children.
Other proposed child safety laws include the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would impose a “duty of care” on social media firms recommending content to minors, and the Stop CSAM Act, designed to enhance protections for minor victims and mandate child abuse reporting.
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