The crazy thing about that online child safety hearing
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Failure and photo opsThat online child safety hearing was something else. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. (pretty sure that “Mo.” stands for Mook), berated Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg until Zuck apologized to hissing parents for awful things their kids endured. A bunch of other grandstanding Senators piled on too.
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