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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis

Testimony

Questioner: Josh HawleyWitness: Mark Zuckerberg

Narrative: ConcealmentNarrative: KnowledgeHarm: Body image & eating disordersHarm: Child sexual exploitationHarm: Suicide & self-injury
Q. · Question

Josh Hawley

A. · Response

Mark Zuckerberg

QuestionCites a specific whistleblower email to Zuckerberg with statistics on 13-15-year-old girls' exposure to unwanted nudity (37%), unwanted sexual advances (24%), and self-harm content (17%) within a single week, and repeatedly demands to know who was fired over the findings.

ResponseZuckerberg confirms the statistics were studied internally but explicitly declines to answer whether anyone was disciplined or fired, calling personnel decisions inappropriate to discuss.