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:
