Big Tech

Today in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ranking Member of the subcommittee, criticized Senate leadership's failure to send legislation to the floor to protect Americans and the U.S. electoral process from the worst effects of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.   "Let's not allow these same companies that control the social media technology in this country, that control the news in this...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement after the House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would ban TikTok on all American devices, if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) linked ByteDance refuses to sell the app. NOW is the time to act on TikTok and stop China spying. The Senate should take up this bill immediately https://t.co/PstR0rY9xi — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 13, 2024 Senator Hawley has been a leader against CCP-linked...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) blasted Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the company's woke Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool and called for him to testify about it, under oath, to Congress.  The AI program received backlash after depicting a litany of historically inaccurate images and text in service of the left’s DEI agenda – including generating the Pope as a black woman and claiming there was “no definitive proof” that Hamas...

Tonight U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor and called for unanimous consent on bipartisan legislation to crack down on the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. The STOP CSAM Act would empower victims to bring civil suits against Big Tech platforms that knowingly host CSAM content. "These companies are the most profitable companies in the world. They are the biggest companies in the history of the world...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced that he will go to the U.S. Senate floor next week and call for unanimous consent on legislation giving victims of sexual exploitation online the right to sue social media platforms. Apologies are nice, but it’s time for Congress to act. Next week I will go to the floor and ask unanimous consent to pass legislation giving victims of exploitation online the right to sue the platforms. We’ve had years of talk. Now is the time to make this law —...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a new letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, calling on the billionaire to establish a compensation fund for victims of online exploitation across Meta's platforms. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, Senator Hawley pressed Zuckerberg about child exploitation on his social media platforms, forcing the Big Tech CEO to apologize his lack of action to protect children online. "According to...

Today in a Senate Judiciary hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pressed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about child exploitation on his social media platforms. Citing horrifying statistics of minors' interactions with sexually explicit material on Meta platforms, Senator Hawley demanded that Zuckerberg answer for his lack of action to protect children online. "Your product is killing people. Will you personally commit to compensating the victims?" asked Senator Hawley. Despite...

Today in a Senate Judiciary hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) challenged TikTok CEO Shou Chew on his app's monitoring of Americans and its harvesting of their personal data, describing the platform as an espionage arm of the Chinese Communist Party. "Every single one of those Americans are in danger from the fact that [TikTok] tracks their keystrokes, [TikTok] tracks their app usage, [TikTok] tracks their location data,"said Senator Hawley. "And we know that all of that...