[gavel bangs] this meeting of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. I want to preface my remarks by saying that i have been in congress a few years. Senator graham has as well. If you do not believe this is an idea whose time has come, take a look at the turnout here. Today, the committee will continue its work on an issue on the mind of most American Families how to keep our kids safe from Sexual Exploitation unharmed in the internet age. Online child Sexual Exploitation includes the use of Online Platforms to target and groom children and the production and endless distribution of child sexual abuse material, which can haunt victims for their entire lives and in some cases take their lives. Everyone here will agree this conduct is abhorrent. I would like to turn to a brief video to hear directly from the victims, survivors of the impact survivors about the impact these crimes have had on them. I was sexually exploded on facebook. I was sexually exploded on instagram. I w
Counsel jack smith. The 45page indictment accuses the former e president of three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Culminating in the january 6th attacks on the u. S. Capitol. Heres the Special Counsel tuesday after the charges were handed up. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 20211, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. If lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of clerking, counting and certifying collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists dan Dan Henninger kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, its interesting, he cited the riots at capitol, but thats not really in the indictment, per se, nothing that links to the rioters in par
The most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. The ceos of meta, tiktok, and x talk about efforts to stop Child Sexual Exploitation online before the Senate Judiciary committee. Republican senator Lindsey Graham, the Top Republican on the committee, was critical of the companies, accusing them of having blood on their hands. Later in the hearing, Mark Zuckerberg apologized to parents who had lost children because of a social mediarelated incident. This is just over three and and a half hours. [gavel bangs] this meeting of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. I want to preface my remarks by saying that i have been in congress a few years. Senator graham has as well. If you do not believe this is an idea whose time has come, take a look at the turnout here. Today, the committee will continue its work on an issue on the mind of most American Families how to keep our kids safe from Sexual Exploitation unharmed in the internet age. Online Chi
Pressure and our willingness to fight, and negotiate as if there is no fighting, if we are going to secure the release of these hostages alive. And ultimately bring peace to israel. We are going to leave the last few moments of this to hear the ceos testifying on child equitation. We have the ceos of meta. We also have evan spiegel. This is live coverage on cspan3. Members of the Senate Judiciary committee are arriving here with different ceos, talking about child sexual explication. The hearing comes amid roman concerns that social media is harming americas youth. The story says that the u. S. Surgeon general issued a Public Health advisory saying that social media use presents a profound risk of harm for teen and kids Mental Health. In written testimony, soderbergh Mark Zuckerberg announced that meta has introduced controls for how long children can use their services. We will hear from him, and the ceos of snap, tiktok, discord, and capital ask in a few minutes. Speaking on the Sena
Sen. Durbin resuming the hearing. Sen. Whitehouse for questions. Sen. Whitehouse . Thank you very much. Mr. Zatko, i wanted to follow up a little bit on the repeated suggestions you have made in your testimony that the cybersecurity vulnerabilities will expose the United States to risks and to attacks and that security failures threaten the countrys National Security. Good with that . Peiter yes, sir. Sen. Whitehouse i guess he didnt add buyers we saw the same thing with facebook when they were taking ads with payments denominated in rubles and not figuring out that might have been russians behind those ads, and you mentioned concerns about hidden chinese ad buyers. If we could talk a little bit more about the National Security risks associated with, for instance, the unregistered Saudi Foreign agent who worked at twitter or the pressure to hire Indian Government agents, walk us through a scenario of how an individual planted in twitter like that could create a National Security risk f