YouTube, Snap and TikTok executives take their turn answering | The New York Times

YouTube, Snap and TikTok executives take their turn answering to Washington.

In a hearing that lasted more than three hours, a bipartisan group of senators told executives from YouTube, Snap and TikTok that they worried the companies’ software steered young people toward inappropriate posts, mishandled consumer data and did not do enough to spot dangerous content on their platforms.

Lawmakers repeatedly said their staff had been able to find harmful content - including posts related to self-harm and pornography - inside the companies’ products, sometimes while logged in as a teenage user.