White House Helped Tech CEOs Dodge Senate Hearing

The White House intervened to prevent Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai from testifying at a Senate hearing regarding child safety practices on their platforms. Instead, the CEOs’ Instagram and YouTube leaders will appear, and the White House is supporting a bipartisan bill, the James T. Woods Act, aimed at combating online child exploitation. This move highlights the tech industry’s influence within the Trump administration and underscores efforts to pass child safety legislation.

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