Lindsey Graham gets cheers as he tells Mark Zuckerberg: 'You have blood on your hands'

The Senate welcomed social media CEOs to the Capitol on Wednesday to discuss online safety and the plans for fixing the lack of internet safety laws, particularly when it comes to extortion and exploitation.

Family members attended the meeting, waving photos of loved ones they say were victims of the lack of online oversight — including some who'd committed suicide.

One mother, whose face was blurred, described her son being extorted and pondering suicide. When it was reported to the social media site "X," the response was that it didn't rise to the level of violations of their terms of service, she said.

Antisemitism continues to run rampant on the platform, as the Washington Post explained last year. CNBC reported that "hate speech" persists, and X's own data proves "little has changed."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the families holding up the photos not to stop fighting.

"It is working," he promised. "You are making a difference. Through you, we will get to where we need to go so other people will not have to show a photo of their family — damage to your family has been done. Hopefully, we can take your pain and turn it into something positive so no one else has to hold up a sign."

He cited a man in the audience named Gavin, whose son was on Instagram and tricked by an extortion group in Nigeria posing as a woman and asking him to be his "boyfriend" and send her nude photos.

"They threatened the young man that if you did not give us money, we are going to expose these photos," Graham explained. "He gave them money, but it was not enough. They kept threatening, and he killed himself. They threatened Mr. Guffey and his son. These were bas---- by any known definition. Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us — I know you do not mean for it to be so, but you have blood on your hands."

The audience broke into applause with hoots and hollers.

When Zuckerberg entered earlier, the audience hissed at him.

Graham explained that Meta's product "is killing people." He went on to compare the company to big tobacco, saying that when it was found to have been causing deaths laws required a warning label. He claimed that with the danger of guns, the federal government created the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Graham, however, then devolved into a rant about the border.

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