Senators met today for a bipartisan session of beating up Big Tech firms for a multitude of controversies — especially the mistreatment of teens. Republicans and Democrats agreed in a rare show of bipartisanship that social media has hidden its harmful side effects much like Big Tobacco.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) scorched Facebook and Instagram’s leadership for knowing the harm caused onto their teenage users, denying such harms in public, and continuing to use the same business model unabated: