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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis
Questioner: Marsha BlackburnWitness: Mark Zuckerberg
Narrative: ConcealmentHarm: Child sexual exploitation
Q. · Question
Marsha Blackburn
A. · Response
Mark Zuckerberg
QuestionDescribes a specific case where content showing teens "for sale" to older men (per WSJ reporting) was left up until a congressional staffer personally escalated it to Meta's global head of safety, and asks why such content wasn't already deemed a violation.
ResponseZuckerberg says the content does violate standards in principle, cites the same 26-million-report NCMEC figure, and concedes "we made a mistake" in this specific case rather than explaining why standard enforcement failed to catch it before a staffer intervened.