Senate Judiciary Demands Meta Documents Related to Teen Mental Health
Meta needs to turn over documents and communication related to whistleblower claims that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and executives deliberately ignored recommendations to address social media’s impact on youth mental health, a bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee members wrote the…
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company Tuesday, as expected (see 2311130052). Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote the letter with Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; and Josh Hawley, R-Mo. They cited an unsealed complaint in a lawsuit Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D) filed against Meta. The complaint shows Zuckerberg “personally vetoed” a new safety feature and supported the company’s underinvestment in platform safety staff, the senators said: “It now seems clear that the root of Meta’s repeated failure to act to enhance the safety of its products starts at the top.”