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Two senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee have subpoenaed the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X — formerly Twitter — to testify about child safety in December.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois subpoenaed the CEOs to force them to testify, they told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The committee expects the CEOs of TikTok and Meta to testify willingly and wants to hear all of their testimonies to assist in tackling the plight of children experiencing sexual exploitation online. (RELATED: ‘This Is A Fight You Wanted’: Lindsey Graham, GOP Sens Threaten Counter-Subpoenas Over Clarence Thomas Ethics Probe)

I just issued bipartisan subpoenas to Big Tech CEOs with @LindseyGrahamSC.

Big Tech has failed to police itself – at the expense of our kids.

We’re informing our legislative push to protect kids online.

— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) November 20, 2023

“Since the beginning of this Congress, our Committee has rallied around a key bipartisan issue: protecting children from the dangers of the online world,” Durbin and Graham said in a statement shared with the DCNF. “It’s at the top of every parent’s mind, and Big Tech’s failure to police itself at the expense of our kids cannot go unanswered.”

The CEOs of Discord, Snap and X repeatedly declined to show up in the span of weeks of negotiating, they told the DCNF. They had to get the U.S. Marshals Service to give the subpoenas to Discord and X.

“Hearing from the CEOs of some of the world’s largest social media companies will help inform the Committee’s efforts to address the crisis of online child sexual exploitation,” they added.

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Discord, a social media site first set up for gamers, has been a hub for child sexual exploitation including grooming and sextortion, NBC News reported in June. The outlet found 165 cases where adults faced prosecution for using Discord to exchange sexually explicit images of children or to allegedly extort them into distributing explicit images of themselves, and 35 cases, 15 to which the defendants pleaded guilty, where adults used it to kidnap, groom or sexually assault children.

“Keeping our users safe, especially young people, is central to everything we do at Discord,” a Discord spokesperson told the DCNF. “We have been actively engaging with the Committee on how we can best contribute to this important industry discussion.”

Snap was “one of the most dangerous” platforms for child sex abuse, but it has made significant changes as of September, according to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

“Snap’s CEO has already agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and our team is coordinating with Committee staff on potential dates,” a Snap spokesperson told the DCNF.

Stanford Internet Observatory identified over 40 pictures on X that got flagged as child sexual exploitation content in a set of about 100,000 posts from March to May, The Wall Street Journal reported.

X told the DCNF it is cooperating with the committee but its CEO has a conflict on the testimony date.

“We have been working in good faith to participate in the Judiciary committee’s hearing on child protection online as safety is our top priority at X,” X’s Head of US & Canada Government Affairs Wifredo Fernandez told the DCNF.

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A Meta whistleblower recently shared findings that 24% of teens were victims of undesired sexual advances, according to NPR.

TikTok has also faced accusations of enabling sexual abuse and exploitation of minors on the app despite its assurance that policies “prohibit content that depicts or disseminates child abuse, child nudity, or sexual exploitation of children in digital or real-world format.”

Meta and TikTok did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

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