OPINION_ Hold Big Tech Accountable for Endangering Children

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Hold Big Tech Accountable for Endangering Children

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

By Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Thursday, 08 February 2024 01:00 PM EST
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Bullying. Fentanyl trafficking. Suicide content. Sexual exploitation. For years, these harms have spread like wildfire on social media sites, hurting children and teenagers most of all.

But time after time, Big Tech companies — from YouTube and Instagram to TikTok and Snapchat — have turned a blind eye to how their platforms are exposing minors to harmful content, drug dealers and child predators.

Just last month, newly released internal documents revealed that Meta executives refused to take action after learning that their algorithms connected children with potential child predators and that an estimated 100,000 minors were receiving sexually abusive content from adults on their platforms — each day.

For Tennesseans and most Americans, this is an inexcusable failure to protect our nation’s children.

But for social media sites, children aren’t the priority; they are the product. And the more time minors spend on their platforms — hooked in by addictive algorithms, infinite scrolling, and endless push notifications — the more data Big Tech can collect, raising their companies’ profits.

In fact, according to documents from the 42-state lawsuit against Meta, the company assigned a “lifetime value” of $270 for each 13-year-old user and identified tweens as a “valuable but untapped market.”

At the same time, the tech giant rolled back safety tools to combat harmful content, dismantled teams responsible for children’s safety, and withheld from congressional oversight damaging information about how millions of teens face bullying, eating disorder content and sexual abuse on its platforms.

One thing is clear: Big Tech’s business model is about putting profits over children’s safety. And it’s far past time these social media companies faced accountability.

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