European here, I was always confused watching U.S. Senate hearings with social media CEOs having to explain and be almost interrogated and accused of someone’s suicide from supposedly “watching content on the platform”. Why do they need to do that and is it only U.S. thing or does it happen somewhere else?
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The CEOs are compelled to testify in Congress. They could lawyer up and try to fight that… but good luck winning that argument against the US Government. Also, if these CEOs don’t testify, then Congress may vote against them and set laws or regulations that ruin the SM company in some way.
The US isn’t the only group doing this. The EU had some serious hearings and some serious penalties levied against bad actors. The EU seems to go way further than US Congress on these things.
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