Universal Music has made good on its threat to pull music from the social media platform after negotiations with TikTok failed. That means no more TayTay, no more Drake, no more… all the other artists that fall under their corporate umbrella. Elsewhere, the chief executive of the world’s most influential social media platform was (at times) literally grilled by the U.S. Senate. And some senators once again appeared out of touch and out of their depth. X boss Linda Yaccarino may have said the strangest thing when she said the former Twitter social network was a “brand new company” and was looking into parental controls. Linda founded Twitter in 2006.
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As previously reported, the CEOs of Meta, Snap, Discord, X, and TikTok testified during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s high-stakes hearing on online child exploitation. Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, Jason Citron, Linda Yaccarino and Shou Zhou spent nearly four hours being grilled by lawmakers, but we’ve managed to boil down the key points as well as the social Responses from group media executives to these points.
The hearing was the first time Spiegel, Citron and Yacarino testified before Congress. Notably, all three were summoned by the committee after refusing to appear voluntarily, according to lawmakers. Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin noted that Citron “only accepted service of subpoenas after U.S. Marshals were dispatched to Discord headquarters at taxpayer expense.”
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