1/ Today the Judiciary is holding a hearing confronting the CEOs of Meta, X, Snapchat, TikTok, and Discord confronting them on their negligence and failure to protect children online. It should be a shocking and historic few hours.🧵

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Sen Graham - Families who lost children to violence are with us today. Please don't stop fighting, so other families don't have to show up and hold up photos of their children.

CEOs before us today - you have blood on your hands

1/ If Twitter whistleblower (and head of security) Peiter Zatkoin left you asking, "How could it possibly be this bad???" you're not alone. Twitter's problems aren't unique, and we should worry…

edition.cnn.com/2022/08/24/tec… 2/ Many of Meta/Facebook's problems came from running critical teams with skeleton crews. Twitter makes signficantly less revenue per user than Facebook does - it's no surprise Twitter is struggling to follow even minimal security or system stability standards.

Today @StateDept formally announced that violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military against the #Rohingya constitutes genocide and crimes against humanity. This should bring renewed attention to the role of Facebook @meta in fuelling the #Rohingya genocide. 1/6 It has been 5 years of promises from @meta to “do more” and “do better.” So, are they? No. @Global_Witness had 8 ads with explicit hate speech about #Rohingya approved for publication. 👎👎👎AP News: bit.ly/3wpZiD5 2/6