Moment Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to families of children harmed online

Sen. Josh Hawley, during a hearing on child safety, called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to directly apologize to the families in the room whose children were harmed online.

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[OmiPre]

Children shouldn't be on social media period.

[CoolNinja]

This isn’t completely under his control. Parents need to monitor their children.

[Wisecookies]

If you don’t let your kids outside unattended don’t let them online unattended

[WarmHug]

Imagine parents throwing their children under a train and then seeing the rail company sued for the children's death.

[mariacampana]

Parents need to be hold accountable as well

[janhenriksen]

As a Norwegian, observing American society feels like watching a real-life crime drama, but with even graver consequences. Daily school shootings and a pervasive drug epidemic, particularly with fentanyl, are deeply disturbing to witness. Instead of addressing these issues, they're often overshadowed by scapegoating a single individual for all the problems.

[AyoAYO-cmhb]

This is ridiculous, they don’t even let him answer.

[loriwilkes]

Parents need a wake up call!!! Monitor your kids, put parental controls on, know what your kids are doing online!!! Don’t make it others responsibility to keep your kids safe it’s yours!!!

[RavenLunatik]

When did parents cease to be responsible for the behavior of their children, and for keeping them safe?

[RC-udqo]

Why are parents allowing their kids to be online anyways? I didn't have phone and internet until I was 17. Stop allowing young people use social media and then pointing the blame to other, YOU ARE the parent, not the businessman.

[m.s]

Noone let him answer the questions . They just carry out an order

[etsahidu]

As a parent, I am 100 PER CENT responsible for my children's screensxploration.

[nekbiodieselworks]

I'm confused. Why doesn't Senator Hawley speak up for the victims of gun violence this way?

[felixtwayigize]

Which senator/politician did he fired after gun violence?

[KTConna]

You know the best way to keep children safe from online threats? Don’t let them use the internet unattended.

[badnoodlez]

he won't even let him speak. wow.

[georgemorales]

At what point do the parents accept responsibility for their childrens actions?

[sjshhhgg]

It's the parents responsibiltiy that their kid is not on social media and also instagram is not accountable for that, its the people on instagram.

[TampaTec]

If you're going on the worldwide web it's like walking around in public streets sht will happen. Only way stop this is to upload ID to social media websites proving you're over 18 then that unlocks all access and features but accounts unverified without ID upload will default to kids account limited access without dm and uploading features.

[ashley.taylor]

This is scapegoating! Parents are always blaming others for their lack of parental involvement.