{"id":14942,"date":"2024-02-01T00:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T00:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/graham-tells-zuckerberg-you-have-blood-on-your-hands-audience-cheers\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T00:47:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T00:47:01","slug":"graham-tells-zuckerberg-you-have-blood-on-your-hands-audience-cheers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/graham-tells-zuckerberg-you-have-blood-on-your-hands-audience-cheers\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham tells Zuckerberg, \u2018you have blood on your hands,\u2019 audience cheers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., gave a harsh rebuke to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the onset of Wednesday\u2019s highly anticipated Big Tech hearing on child exploitation online.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us. I know you don\u2019t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands,\u2019 Graham, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, garnering applause from the audience. \u2018You have a product that\u2019s killing people.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Graham referenced South Carolina state Rep. Brandon Guffey, who is suing Instagram after his 17-year-old son Gavin died by suicide after falling victim to an extortion group from Nigeria operating through the Meta-owned app.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018They threatened the young man that if you don\u2019t give us money, we\u2019re going to expose these photos. He gave them money, but it wasn\u2019t enough. They kept threatening, and he killed himself. They threatened Mr. Guffey and a son. These are bastards. By any known definition,\u2019 Graham said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Graham noted that Congress has taken action to regulate cigarettes and tobacco and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regulates guns, yet social media companies are largely shielded from being held liable in court under Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The bottom line is you can\u2019t be sued. You should be. And these emails would be great for punitive damages,\u2019 Graham said, referencing Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., whom he dubbed the \u2018dynamic duo\u2019 for recently releasing 90 pages of internal emails from fall 2021 showing top Meta officials weighing the addition of dozens of engineers and other employees to focus on children\u2019s well-being and safety. The emails show that one proposal to Zuckerberg for 45 new staff members was declined.<\/p>\n

\u2018But the courtroom\u2019s closed to every American abused by all the companies in front of me. Of all the people in America we could give blanket liability protection to, this would be the last group I would pick. It is now time to repeal Section 230,\u2019 Graham said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We live in an America in 2024 where there is no regulatory body dealing with the most profitable, biggest companies in the history of the world,\u2019 Graham said. \u2018They can\u2019t be sued. And there\u2019s not one law on the books that\u2019s meaningful in protecting the American consumer.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg did not address Graham\u2019s \u2018blood on your hands comment\u2019 directly in his own opening statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Over the last eight years, we\u2019ve built more than 30 different tools, resources and features that parents can set time limits for their teens using our apps, see who they\u2019re following, or if they report someone for bullying,\u2019 Zuckerberg said in part.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Mental health is a complex issue and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes. A recent National Academies of Science report evaluated over 300 studies and found that research, quote, \u2018did not support the conclusion that social media causes changes in adolescent mental health and also suggested that social media can provide significant positive benefits when young people use it to express themselves, explore and connect with others.\u2019\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Still, we\u2019re going to continue to monitor the research and use it to inform our roadmap. Keeping people safe has been a challenge since the internet began. As criminals evolve their tactics, we have to evolve our defenses to comply with law enforcement to find bad actors and help bring them to justice. But the difficult reality is that no matter how much we invest or how effective our tools are, there are always more. There\u2019s always more to learn and more improvements to make.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We have around 40,000 people overall working on safety and security. We\u2019ve invested more than $20 billion in this since 2016, including around $5 billion in the last year alone. We have many teams dedicated to child safety in all three and a lot of areas,\u2019 Zuckerberg said. \u2018Parents should have the final say on what apps are appropriate for their children and shouldn\u2019t have to upload their ID every time. That\u2019s what app stores are for.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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