White House helped Meta and Google CEOs avoid Senate testimony on child safety
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Owen Dahlkamp
Summary
The White House helped Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) and Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoid testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, instead allowing Instagram and YouTube heads to appear in their place. This previously unreported involvement illustrates how tech giants leverage alliances with the Trump administration to navigate intense scrutiny from lawmakers and courts over their platforms' societal impact. Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley agreed to the substitution for a hearing focused on child safety legislation.
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bskyWhite House helped Meta and Google CEOs avoid Senate testimony on child safetypolitico.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledChairman Grassley isn't interested in simply generating clicks and views online like past hearings. He's working to get lifesaving child safety legislation actually signed into law.
The Grassley-Durbin James T. Woods Act is hugely bipartisan and widely supported because it's universally
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