By Staff Writer
Aron Solomon, chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, joined TRT World to discuss this week’s Congressional hearings on social media and child safety. According to Solomon:
“The big issue that is coming under scrutiny in Congress is that everything these social media companies are doing is to get more eyeballs on their platform. Especially those eyeballs of kids. So when some of these social media companies say that content on our platform is fine for kids 13 and up – what happened today is a Congressperson said, we actually set up an account for a 13-year-old and the kinds of things we were seeing were absolutely not appropriate for a 13-year-old to see. So there’s a big disconnect between what the social media companies are saying and what may be the reality for most parents trying to decide if and when their child should be on social media.”
Watch the segment below:
A Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer, Aron Solomon, JD, is the Chief Strategy Officer for AMPLIFY. He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was elected to Fastcase 50, recognizing the top 50 legal innovators in the world. Aron has been featured in Newsweek, The Hill, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, CBS News, CNBC, USA Today, ESPN, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Venture Beat, The Independent, Fortune China, Abogados, Today’s Esquire, Yahoo!, ABA Journal, Law.com, The Boston Globe, and many other leading publications across the globe.
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