The family whose son inspired legislation to crack down on the exploitation of children on social media is condemning a White House intervention that secured administration support for a child online safety package — while allowing Meta and Google to send lower-level executives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in place of their CEOs.
“It was our understanding that this legislation was never intended to become a political bargaining chip,” Tania and Tim Woods wrote in a Wednesday letter obtained by POLITICO sent to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), other members of the…
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