Harold Mendoza

Recently, the CEOs of Snap, Meta, X, Discord, and TikTok have recently gone to court for child exploitation on their respective apps. On January 31st of this year, the CEOs arrived at the Senate in Washington D.C. because the people using the apps have been showing videos, pictures, etc. violating the TOS and community guidelines they agreed to follow. When or if you decide to go against these guidelines, the company is forced to take it down as soon as they can. Some companies even have integrated AI to scan the videos or comments for anything negative towards a person or persons.
Mr. Shou Chew, the CEO of TikTok, was at the senate for multiple cases regarding public safety. Chew testified about one video by a user on the app shows a gun and says, “Me at the House Energy and Commerce Committee on 03/23/2023.” This goes against TikTok’s guidelines because they state, “We do not allow people to use our platform to threaten or incite violence. When there is a threat to public safety or an account is used to promote or glorify off-platform violence, we ban the account.” Now, granted the account did get banned after the hearing, the account and video was up for approximately 41 days without any ban or ban notice. The threat was towards the chairwoman of the judiciary committee that was proceeding the hearing with Chew and the others that day.
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook or Meta, was at court the same day as Chew for the approximate 1,400 missing and exploited children reports a day. That’s bad just by itself, but just ten years later in 2023, the reports had risen to about 100,000 reports a day. They also allow people to make other accounts to put people under the age of 18 at risk of sexual abuse or much worse. Zuckerberg, Meta nor any of their employees have given any reparations to the families that had or were about to have their child killed or possibly kidnapped because of these risks. As Zuckerberg and the whole company gets flamed, he is asked if he had apologized to any of the families and Zuckerberg responds with, “no.” The senator forces him to turn around and apologize In front of them directly. The parents were holding up pictures of their kids so he would feel even worse than he already does. It’s safe to say Meta will try their best to not let this happen again.
Child predators are a big problem in the United States. The numbers in the U.S. according to Google are 750,000 people trying to abuse someone. Most of them (80% – 95%) assault someone they know. If you ever witness or hear about someone who has been abused, call 911 or your local police. These companies have hopefully learned their lesson and will never let anything like this ever happen again.