04/02/2024
Online Child Safety on Social Media!!
Dear Parents,
Here's a matter we need not overlook, lest we lose a whole generation to sexual predators!
The United States Senate Judiciary Committee recently summoned top social media CEOs: Meta/Facebook, TikTok, X/Twitter, Discord, and SnapChat to testify about their safety standard measures when it came to protecting children online.
The focus was on child safety, with discussions around features that addict children and protection from online predators.
Notable areas included: child exploitation, sexual predators, addictive social media features, self-harm, eating disorders, unrealistic beauty standards, and cyber bullying.
A couple of solutions were proposed, like requiring parental consent on applications before a child installs it and stricter age limit barriers.
The senate is yet to vote on the hearing's outcome.
Check the links below for more on this.
(1) WATCH: Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in Senate ... - PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-ceos-of-meta-tiktok-x-and-other-social-media-companies-testify-in-senate-hearing.
(2) Social media CEOs testify to Senate. https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/2024/02/social-media-ceos-testify-to-senate/.