Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told he has ‘blood on his hands’ during tense US Senate hearing

Who did you fire I said you mischaracterized 37% of teenage girls between 13 and 15 were exposed to unwanted nudity in a week on Instagram you knew about it who did you fire Senator this is why we’re building all who did you tools Senator that’s I don’t

Think that that’s who did you fire I’m not gonna answer that um because you didn’t fire anybody right you didn’t take any significant AC it’s appropriate to talk about like IND decisions you know who’s sitting behind you you’ve got families from across the nation whose children are either severely harmed or

Gone and you don’t think it’s appropriate to take a talk about steps that you took the fact that you didn’t fire a single person let me ask you this let me ask you this have you compensated any of the victims sorry have you compensated any of the victims these

Girls have you compensated them I don’t believe so why not don’t you think they deserve some compens for what your platform has done help with counseling services help with dealing with the issues that your your servic has caused our job is to make sure that we build tools to keep people

Safe are you going to compensate them Senator our job and what we take seriously is making sure that we build industry-leading tools find harmful cont take it off the services to make money and to build tools that Empower parents so you didn’t take any action you didn’t

Take any action you didn’t fire anybody you haven’t compensated a single victim let me ask you let me ask you this there’s families of victims here today have you apologized to the victims I would you like to do so now well they’re here you’re on National Television would

You like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed by your product show them the pictures would you like to apologize for what you’ve done to these good [Applause] people things that your families suffered this is why we invested so much and are going to continue doing industry

Leag efforts to uh to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families had to suffer you know why Mr Zuckerberg why should your company not be sued for this why is it that you can claim you hide behind a liability Shield you can’t be

Held accountable shouldn’t you be held accountable personally will you take personal responsibility Senator I I think I’ve already answered this I mean this is these try will you take personal responsibility Senator I view my job and the job of our company is building the best tools that we can to keep our

Community safe well you’re failing at that well Senator we’re doing an industry-leading effort we build AI tools nonsense your product is killing people will you personally commit to compensating the victims you’re a billionaire will you commit to compensating the victims will you set up a compensation fund with your money I

Think these are these are with your money senator these are complicated no that that’s not a complicated question though that’s yes or no will you set up a victim’s compensation fund with your money the money you made on these families sitting behind you yes or no

Senator I don’t think that that’s my job is to good tools my my job sure your job is to be responsible for what your company has done you’ve made billions of dollars on the people sitting behind them are you here you’ve done nothing to help them you’ve done nothing to

Compensate them you’ve done nothing to put it right you could do so here to day and you should

MARK Zuckerberg has been mercilessly warned there is “blood on his hands” for not doing enough to safeguard kids online.

The Meta CEO was dished the damning criticism by Sen. Lindsey Graham during a fiery congressional hearing that saw him and other social media big wigs come under fire from lawmakers on Wednesday.

Zuckerberg was just one of five social media giant CEOs that testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the hearing called “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.”

CEOs from Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord, and X, formerly known as Twitter, attended the hearing recorded by C-SPAN.

This included Meta CEO Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Discord CEO Jason Citron.

Senator Lindsey Graham said Zuckerberg and the others have “blood on your hands” due to children who have lost their lives due to situations tied to social media, the Associated Press reported.

The hearing also highlighted how it was found that internal Meta documents suggested it estimated each teen user to be worth $270 to the platforms.

Meta owns Facebook and Instagram.

“Social media companies as they are currently designed and operate, are dangerous products,” Graham said during the hearing.

“They’re destroying lives threatening democracy itself.

“These companies must be reined in.

“Or the worst is yet to come.”

‘BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS’

Graham noted he is sure the “blood” is unintentional, but that something needs to be done to get control of it.

“Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands,” Graham said.

“You have a product, that’s killing people.

“When we had cigarettes killing people, we did something about it, maybe not enough.

“You’re going to talk about guns, we have the ATF.”

Graham ended the statement and said, “Nothing here,” referring to nothing protecting lives when it comes to social media.

“There’s not a damn thing anybody can do about it.

“You can’t be sued.”

Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy went on to claim Meta platforms have become a “killing field of information” where users “see only one side of an issue” – points vehemently rejected by Zuckerberg.

“You have convinced over 2 billion people to give up all of their personal information — every bit of it — in exchange for getting to see what their high school friends had for dinner Saturday night,” Kennedy said.

“And you take this information, this abundance of personal information and then you develop algorithms to punch people’s hot buttons … again and again and again, to keep them coming back and to keep them staying longer.

“As a result, your users see only one side of an issue, and so to some extent, your platform has become a killing field for the truth, isn’t it?”

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47 comments

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  15. Of course he has blood on his hands. In the marketplace, I have come across profiles that are connected to T-organizations (radical). They have publicly shared that they work in such "spiritual" organizations and after reporting from my side, nothing happened.

  19. I think that he was bombared with so many questions in a row, he could hardly answer any of them, this tbh doesn't seem fair enoguh, atleast give the poor guy the chance to speak during his turn, its like pressurising him like a cooker and making a mush out of his brain, let him process one question, you are straightaway asking him a myriads of question on the go, so its likely that he will lose the floor beneath his feets, atleast give him the chance to speak, that would be a more intutive conversation, and it will act as a catalyst to solve those problems.

  25. Parents cant take their children’s phone right away and forbid them using the social media. It doesnt work like that in today’s world. Senetor did the right thing. This pressure is well deserved.

  26. If someone uses a bank to commit fraud, I don't believe you hold the president of the bank responsible. This line of questioning is CRAZY

  37. In the end of the day its the users responsibility and guidance of the parents needed social media is only a tool" likes guns if someone kill using those do you blame the manufacturer of the guns?

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