‘You have blood on your hands’

The chief executives of social media companies Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord faced tough questions on their efforts to combat online child sexual exploitation at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Senator Dick Durbin, the Judiciary Committee's Democratic chairman, cited statistics from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children nonprofit group that showed financial "sextortion," in which a predator tricks a minor into sending explicit photos and videos, had skyrocketed last year. "This disturbing growth in child sexual exploitation is driven by one thing: changes in technology," Durbin said during the hearing. As the hearing kicked off on Wednesday,…