Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
As five Big Tech executives appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, the group Ekō released a report highlighting how ' social media companies are not only failing to safeguard young users from harm, but actively profiting from it.
'Another hearing, more evasions and deflections from big tech CEOs,' Josh Golin of the child advocacy group Fairplay said Wednesday. 'If Congress really cares about the families who packed the hearing today holding pictures of their children lost to social media harms, they will move the Kids Online Safety Act. Pointed questions and sound bites won't save lives, but KOSA will.
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