mr. spiegel? >>, ranking member graham, and members of the committee, thank you for moving forward an important legislation to protect children online. i am evan siegel, the cofounder and ceo of snap. we created snapshot, a online service used by more than 800 million people online to communicate with their friends and families. i know many of you have been working to protect children online since before snapshot was created and we are grateful for your long-term dedication to this cause and your willingness to work together to help keep our communities safe. i want to acknowledge the survivors of online harms in the families were here today who have suffered the loss of a loved one. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel with a service we have made to bring people happiness and joy that has been used to create harm. i want to be clear we understand our responsibility to keep the community safe. i also want to recognize the many families who have worked to raise awareness on thes

. >> mr. spiegel, i know we talked ahead of time. i do appreciate your company's support for the cooper davis act which will finally, it's a bill with senator shahin and marshall which will allow law enforcement to do more when it comes to fentanyl. i think you know what a problem this is. devin nooring, teenager from hastings, i mentioned his mom here. suffered dental pain and bought what he thought was percocet over snap and instead he bought something with a lethal dose of fentanyl. as his mom here with us today said all of the hopes and dreams that we had for devin were erased in the blink of an eye and no mom should have to bury their kid. talk about why you support the cooper davis act. >> senator, we strongly support the cooper davis act and we believe it will help dea go after the cartels and get dealers off the streets to save more lives. >> okay. are there others who support that bill? no? okay. last, mr. zuckerberg, in 2021 "the wall street journal" reported on internal matter research documents asking why do we care about

spiegel, mr. chew. >> chair durbin, ranking member graham, and members of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is shou chew, and i am the ceo of tiktok, an online community of more than 1 billion people worldwide including well over 170 million americans who use our app every month to create, to share, and to discover. now, although the average age on tiktok in the u.s. is over 30, we recognize that special safeguards are required to protect minors and especially when it comes to combatting all forms of csam. as a father of three young children myself, i know that the issues we're discussing today are horrific and the nightmare of every parent. i am proud of our efforts to address the threats to young people online from a commitment to protecting them to our industry leading policies, use of innovative technology, and significant ongoing investments in trust and safety to achieve this goal. tiktok is vigilant about enforcing its 13 and up age policy, and

mr. spiegel? >> mark zuckerberg, the ceo of meta delivering his opening statements at this hearing.ech ceos answering questions from senators and again, there is bipartisan pressure on these companies to do more to protect kids on social media, and we really should explain how tense this is expected to get. the ranking minority senator lindsay graham on this committee has said that these companies have blood on their hands. so this hearing could get very tense. in the meantime, you are looking to buy a house or finance a car or make major financial decisions? you better pay attention to a big announcement coming today. >>> newly released body cam video shows the moments before the beating that cost tyree nichols his life. not just any whiteboard... ...katie porter's whiteboard is one way she's: [news anchor] ...often seen grilling top executives of banks, big pharma, even top administration officials. katie porter. never taken corporate pac money - never will. leading the fight to ban congressional stock trading. and the only democrat who opposed wasteful “earmarks” that fund politi

. >> mr. spiegel? >> yes do disclose. >> mr. >> yes, we do. >> harris: wow, some of those tech ceos were opaque. jason rantz, seattle radio host and author of what's killing america. your take on senator cruz and coons going after mark zuckerberg? >> at the end of the day there are two separate issues. is the technology available 20 do what most people want it to do to protect children? and anyone else from images and information they shouldn't have access to. the answer is yes and no. depends on what we're talking about. i think it is important to understand what mark zuck was saying in part you might be searching for something totally legitimate. what they don't want to have happen is give you any kind of platform that doesn't give you access to information that is totally legal and that's appropriate. age appropriate as well to get to that point. >> harris: i understood what he meant. if you are going to protect children you might have to err on that side whether in case you are wrong, you wanted to ask about birds and more a

. >> mr. spiegel, there are two fathers in this room who lost their sons, they're 16 years old. their children were able to get those pills from snapchat. i know that there are statistics and i know that there are good efforts. none of those efforts are keeping our kids from getting access to those drugs on your platform. as a california company, all of you, i've talked with you about what it means to be a good neighbor and what california families and american families should be expecting from you. you owe them more than just a set of statistics, and i look forward to you showing up on all pieces of these legislation, all of you showing up on all pieces of legislation to keep our children safe. mr. zuckerberg, i want to come back to you, i talked with you about being a parent to a young child, who doesn't have a phone, doesn't -- you know, is not on social media at all, and one of the things that i am deeply concerned with as a parent to a young black girl is the utilization of filters on your platform that would suggest that young girls utilizing your platform the evidence tha

. >> mr. spiegel, i know we talked ahead of time, i do appreciate your company's support for the cooper davis act, which will finally -- it is a bill with senator shaheen and marshall which will allow law enforcement to do more when it comes to fentanyl. i think you know what a problem this is. a teenager from hastings, i mentioned his mom is here, suffered dental pain and migraines so he bought what he thought was a percocet over snap, but instead he bought a counterfeit drug laced with a lethal dose of fentanyl. as his mom who is here with us today, said all of the hopes and dreams we as parents had for devin were erased in the blink of an eye and no mom should have to bury their kid. talk about why you support the cooper davis act. >> senator, thank you. we strongly support the cooper davis act. we believe it will help dea go after the cartels and get more dealers off streets to save more lives. >> okay. are there others that support that bill? no. okay. last, mr. zuckerberg, in 2021 "the w

mr. spiegel i listened closely to your testimony here.nd it's never been a secret that snapchat is used to send sexually explicit images. in 2013, early if your company's history, you admitted this in an interview. do you remember that interview? >> senator, i don't recall the specific interview. >> you said when you were first trying to get people on the app you would go up to the people and say hey you should try this application, you can send disappearing photos and they would say oh for sexting do you remember that? >> the idea was around disappearing images. the feedback we received from people using the app is they were using it to communicate. we changed the name to snapchat and found that people were using it to talk visually. >> as early as 2017, they identified snapchat as the case of the pedophile's go to. the case of a 12-year-old girl, lw, shows the danger. she was groomed, sent sexually explicit images over snapchat. he admitted he only used snapchat and not any other platforms because he, quote, knew the chats would go away

mr. zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking?rter: snap ceo evan spiegel also aggressively questioned. >> did you or anyone else at snap really fail to see that the platform was a perfect tool for sexual predators? >> senator, that behavior is disgusting and reprehensible. >> i am very happy with the senator's questions. they were very pointed, but i was not happy with the responses. >> reporter: for tammy rodriguez, who is 11-year-old daughter died by suicide after severe social media addiction, zuckerberg's apology was not enough. >> when he stood up to apologize, he looked right in my eyes and there is no feeling or emotion. >> reporter: also in the room, shawna pautsch. she is raising her 11-year-old granddaughter, who she says was exploited on snapchat. >> i am very frustrated with listening to these ceos, how many more children do we need to lose in order for this to change? >> reporter: the next step is for lawmakers to pass legislation. senators durbin and graham tell me that they want to reform the law that prevents user

hello , my reporter and colleague, mrs. moazzami, mrs. moazzami . good morning to you . north atlantic nato has announced that this is the largest in an interview with tagus spiegel, according to experts that there is a possibility that russia will attack one of the nato partners in the next 5 to 8 years, so this talk can be the most important factor and motivation for holding such an exercise, which was also in your speech, which is the biggest nato exercise after the cold war, in fact in it should be considered that in this exercise of criticism. the ground forces from the western side of nato to the eastern parts should actually be trained from america and canada to the eastern parts in the baltic sea area, which is considered to be the focal point of germany, that is, the forces will go to germany , as you know, the largest nato base in europe is germany, and from there to the eastern parts , and in this exercise , which is scheduled to be held for 4 months from the month of freya, next month, as you mentioned, 90,000 ground forces will participate, of which 20,000 t

so faithful told slovak tv that he's going into this meeting with you frame from mr. dennis shinagle to tell him that hill vo, any attempt of you trained to join nato since he figures it would be to world war 3 . and that he also plans on telling spiegel that he won't be getting any weapons from the slovak state or it's army. now that language is very carefully chosen because as that doesn't necessarily mean that so that he is military, industrial, complex is public and private weapons and ammunition manufacturers won't be able to supply you frame with weapons. presumably if money exchange them is coming into slovak. yeah. because the parliament voted earlier this month to pay the way for that and to ride this task. how, along with everyone else, at least until the rodeo ends and feet. so it's also saying to the west, to that end, in terms of eventually wrapping things up here and also to you frame, hey guys, here's an exit route pointing one out so that maybe they don't blow past it all route to the usual fiery crash on the western regime change highway there has to