Arturo Bejar described his fruitless efforts to flag the extent of harmful effects its platforms could have on teens to top leadership at the company.
Bejar described his fruitless efforts to flag the extent of harmful effects its platforms could have on teens to top leadership at the company.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle blamed tech lobbying for Congress' failure to pass laws protecting kids online. Despitewithin Senate committees of bills that aim to protect kids on the internet, they have ultimately sat dormant, waiting for a vote on the Senate floor or for action in the House., another former Meta employee who leaked internal documents and research to news organizations and the Senate to shed light on the company's safety issues.
"I found it heartbreaking because it meant that they knew and they were not acting on it," Bejar said. Bejar wrote in the email to Zuckerberg that his teenage daughter has received unsolicited genitalia pictures from male users since she was 14. His daughter said she would block users who sent the photos.
Stone pointed to a tool called"Restrict," developed based on teen feedback. If one user restricts a second user, only the second user will be able to see their own comments on user one's posts. He also pointed to Meta'sSubcommittee Chair Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., positioned their bill, the Kids Online Safety Act as a key solution to the harms Bejar described.
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