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Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript · 21 transcript matches
HUNT, WESLEY "gaslighting, censoring, demonetization, suspension, debanking, collusion to de-platform, and every restriction of free speech imaginable all under the Biden-Harris administration. In the past seven years, we have witnessed the greatest assault on the First Amendment in American history. But remember, the Democrats are the party of preserving democracy, right? We expected this type of censorship from the Biden-Harris administration, but what we didn't know was how coordinated their efforts were with big tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Twitter. What I want to talk about today are the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriters, and performers in the digital age.
senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee · Dec 9, 2025 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
SPEAKER_01 "lawmakers with the fact that unless we act and do something, unless we stand up to these corporate interests, more and more children like yours will lose their lives, will lose their futures, will lose their hope. So I just want to say thank you, because you are the tip of the spear. I mean, you are what is making the change. I noticed in your testimony, your written testimony, I was reading it just a second ago, I noticed you pointed out that as to your boy, no system protected him, no platform stopped it. And then you pointed out Meta, for example, has features that flag all inappropriate..."
Hearing Hearings to examine whistleblower allegations that Meta buried child safety research.
senate Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee · Sep 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine Meta's foreign relations and representations to the United States Congress.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony HUNT, WESLEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"gaslighting, censoring, demonetization, suspension, debanking, collusion to de-platform, and every restriction of free speech imaginable all under the Biden-Harris administration. In the past seven years, we have witnessed the greatest assault on the First Amendment in American history. But remember, the Democrats are the party of preserving democracy, right? We expected this type of censorship from the Biden-Harris administration, but what we didn't know was how coordinated their efforts were..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
UNKNOWN "quote, begins actual construction to only require a Clean Air Act permit before constructing emitting units, not other facility components. And what this means is that a data center that relies on gas-polluting generators like those in my community, they'd be able to begin millions of dollars worth of construction without permits, and more importantly, without the public comment period that these permits require. One of the data center companies constructing a data center in my community is Meta. And Meta made all sorts of assurances before coming into the community. And Meta made all sorts..."
Hearing Hearings to examine maritime unmanned surface vessels.
senate SeaPower Subcommittee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "And I understand it's growing. Admiral, I was very interested in your three meta-trends in your testimony, and particularly as to the growing capability of asymmetric warfare, cheap, massed, unmanned warfare. We've seen it in"
Hearing Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "And I understand it's growing. Admiral, I was very interested in your three meta-trends in your testimony, and particularly as to the growing capability of asymmetric warfare, cheap, massed, unmanned warfare. We've seen it in"
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on federalism, sanctuary cities, and the rule of law.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening to them as a"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sheria Akins Clarke, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Kathleen S....
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening to them as a"
Testimony ROSS, DEBORAH K.
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"If you didn't like it during the Biden administration, you have to condemn it during the Trump administration. Facebook, also known as Meta, has gutted their content moderation and safety teams, rolled back hate speech standards. And when Trump was asked if the decision by Meta was a direct response to Trump's threats to Mr. Zuckerberg in the past, he said, probably, yeah, probably. So when we talk about the First Amendment, it has to apply across the"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"lawmakers with the fact that unless we act and do something, unless we stand up to these corporate interests, more and more children like yours will lose their lives, will lose their futures, will lose their hope. So I just want to say thank you, because you are the tip of the spear. I mean, you are what is making the change. I noticed in your testimony, your written testimony, I was reading it just a second ago, I noticed you pointed out that as to your boy, no system protected him, no..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1682, to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety standard for certain...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BLACKBURN, MARSHA "digital assets. So it's unfortunate they've decided to stall on this and not move forward. I do want to draw the committee's attention to the decision against Meta in the New Mexico case. And that verdict that was announced yesterday. that"
Hearing Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BRAD CARSON "often discovered that the law offers them little recourse. Section 230 may be the 26 words that created the Internet, but they also are the 26 words that have visited irrevocable harm to generations of children. I recount the history of Section 230 because Congress now faces a structurally equivalent moment regarding artificial intelligence. Some have suggested freezing state law developments while enacting no comprehensive federal regulation of the technology. Section 230 is what I would call a meta-law, a law that determines who governs an emerging industry rather than how that governance..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCANLON, MARY GAY "full power of the government to silence or intimidate people who disagree with it and nowhere is that more true than with the department of homeland security when people have dared to speak out or push back they've been assaulted arrested and now even killed but what may have flown under the radar is that over the past year DHS has been ramping up its use of a lesser known tool known as administrative subpoenas or summons under your leadership DHS has sent record numbers of these summons to tech companies like google and meta reto apple microsoft and discord demanding without legal authority..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annual Report, focusing on a new day at the CFPB through reform.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "Apple, Bank of America, Capital One, J.P. Morgan, you want me to keep going on this? Toyota, Walmart, Meta, and that's just at the CFPB. In 2025, across federal agencies, the Trump administration dropped cases against more than 50 companies that we can document have financial ties to the president or to his inner circle. So, let's take a look at one more case, one you have mentioned. Navy Federal Credit Union got caught by the CFPB charging illegal overdraft"
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
TRAHAN, LORI "But we are losing ground. Meta's Lama model was previously a leader in the open weight space, but it's now been overtaken by models from Chinese companies like"
Hearing Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances, and security.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "In the last few months, the technology companies have sort of seen the light. They created an industry accord against online scams and fraud in March. Meta, Microsoft, others signed on. And they've recently spoken with the strike force and talked about how much they've been able to crack down on their own"
Hearing “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
DR. CHRIS MESEROLE "Since our founding, we have worked with our six member firms, Anthropic, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to develop the security practices, scientific research, and information-sharing channels we need to responsibly manage the potential large-scale risks to public safety and security from frontier AI. My aim this morning is not to advocate for particular policies, but to help inform your discussion of the security challenges and opportunities presented by the most advanced cyber capabilities of the latest AI models and"
Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
CAITRIONA FITZGERALD "This bill would also make it harder to hold big tech accountable in court. Just last week, Meta, Snap, YouTube, and TikTok agreed to a $27 million settlement with a Many of the claims in that case relate to rules in this bill, so there's no way of knowing whether similar cases could move"
Hearing Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America First Foreign Policy
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
OLSZEWSKI, JOHNNY "One week. He bought up to $5 million more NVIDIA stock in February, right before the company announced a major chip deal with Meta. It's pretty good luck if you ask me. If that's not bad enough, the President's son struck a multi-billion dollar crypto deal with a UAE state-backed"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Health and Human Services.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "The risks to me are horrendous. I've asked both ARPA and the Surgeon General's Office to either do meta-reviews or to do base studies on this issue so that we can better inform the American public. Limb"
Hearing Hidden Wounds: Effectively Supporting Veterans with TBI
house Health Subcommittee · Mar 5, 2026 · Transcript
MURPHY, GREGORY F. "Are you familiar, by any chance, with the work of Dr. Joseph Marone at the University of Pittsburgh, who does the same work? All right, please, if you will, for professional education, please familiarize yourself with his work. I'd like to submit for a record a meta-analysis done in the frontiers of neuroscience in October of 2023, talking about the multiple, multiple studies that show hyperbaric oxygen for veterans, for PTSD, shows an improvement not only in clinical data and clinical wellness, but in physiological"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Kyle Haustveit, of North...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "Mr. Hosswhite. Louisiana has a big meta AI center in northeast Louisiana. There's one just announced with Amazon in northwest"
Testimony RUPA SUBRAMANYA
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"This partnership affects far more people than a relatively small number of school boards canceling Ibrahim Kendi's How to Be an Anti-Racist. And it's harder to detect. When a school board removes a book from its shelves, there's usually a meeting and a public airing of opinions. But when Meta or the Bank of America decide that one of their users or account holders has voiced the wrong opinion, they can take action that the vast majority of us will never know"
Testimony MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship. One week earlier, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platform. Zuckerberg announced that he and Meta would follow the lead of Elon Musk at X and create crowdsourced fact-checking known as community notes to replace much of the fact-checking the company had outsourced to"
Testimony CRAIG AARON
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"an interview with the former vice president. Big media and tech companies, Disney, ABC, Meta, maybe now CBS, are paying tens of millions of dollars to settle specious lawsuits. They appear to be paying off the president to shield themselves from reprisal or to gain regulatory favors. Meta, for example, went from promising to step away from politics to actively pushing the president's agenda after Mr. Trump threatened Mark Zuckerberg with life in"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"No, I need to. It's May 16th, 2023, transcribed interview with a Meta security policy employee who confirmed that Meta's hack and leak policy was not mandated. that Meta's hack and leak policy was not"
Testimony GOODEN, LANCE
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"I'd love to insert into the record, I don't know if my colleague from Dallas County inserted this letter from Meta Zuckerberg on August 26, but he spent two whole pages talking about all the things that he was pressured to do by the Biden White House. And this was after Trump said, I'm going to lock up anyone who interferes in this"
Testimony CLINE, BEN
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"The U.N. has also partnered with other players in the censorship industrial complex, including CrowdTangle, a Facebook meta-connected fact-checking tool. Meeden got $250,000 from the National Science Foundation for identifying and countering misinformation on closed messaging platforms. And International Fact-Checking Network, IFCN, a grant and fellowship-making organization to help fact-checkers, solution providers, and other eligible organizations launch"
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"Talk about thin skin. Sued CBS News for deceptive, false, or misleading acts in commerce, seeking $10 billion over an interview. And then META got sued for the opposite, for actually taking down Trump's account after January 6th. When January 6th did happen, people killed a member of the Capitol Police. There were cop killers in that bunch who got pardoned. And META agreed to pay $25 million, having some of the money go to the presidential"
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"describing Trump's false claims that he won the 2020 election. So lots of defamation lawsuits from Trump, a lot of chilling effect, intimidation, silencing, and fear. And if the government can come after CNN and META, then surely the government can come after any American that says something the government, this president, doesn't like. So I was struck by the CNN defamation lawsuit, because Trump sued them for the use of the phrase the big lie in connection with his 2020 election loss"
Testimony HAGEMAN, HARRIET M.
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"industrial complex and how censorship has permeated so many of our once trusted institutions. We have confirmed, for example, that the Biden administration pressured and coerced Facebook slash meta and other social media companies to remove true and accurate contact, including the fact that the Hunter Biden laptop, in all of its horrific glory, did in fact belong to him and was an honest depiction of not only his life, but of his corruption. We expose the World Federation of Advertisers, or..."
Testimony HUNT, WESLEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"disappeared upon the new Trump administration. Will this political content filter magically reappear if the Democrats take back the White House at some point in the very distant future? Will voices like mine and many of my colleagues in this room be suppressed out of the midterms? These are all questions that inquiring minds really want to know. Now, you might have noticed that recently Mark Zuckerberg has been on a press tour to repair his pro-censorship image, but those of us who have been..."
Testimony HUNT, WESLEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"chocolate pudding at this point, and just because you get from a million dollars ex post facto does not change the fact that you did this and this actually happened. I've seen Democrats on TV for the past week scream Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk. It's been quite invigorating actually. I really enjoyed it. What's funny about it to me is that you're mad at the guy that found the fraud, but not mad at the people that wasted your money. Here in Congress, we clearly can't..."
Testimony HUNT, WESLEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"administration. Do you see a return to some of the policies that I was referring to with Meta in terms of the upcoming election, the upcoming midterms, the future? I understand right now it's really cool because President Trump won, so now you want to be in the cool guy club. But what measures do you think need to be done, or do you see a potential return to that if we don't get this right, you know, in the next, you know, 18 months? I mean, I think, yeah, absolutely. I forget it. Thank you..."
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"All right, so we've got this article right here about this guy. Meta says it will end its fact-checking program on social media posts. I'll talk about that a little bit"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"But the fact is, Ms. Woods, as you wrote in your remarks about abuse and exploitation of your son, quote, no system protected him. No platform stopped it. And I've met countless parents who feel the same way. The common factor in all their stories is the one gatekeeper that makes this abuse possible is, in fact, Big Tech. It's Meta and others who are allowing predators from around the world to use their platforms and make our kids prey to exploiters who are sometimes beyond our borders. So I..."
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Apple, Bank of America, Capital One, J.P. Morgan, you want me to keep going on this? Toyota, Walmart, Meta, and that's just at the CFPB. In 2025, across federal agencies, the Trump administration dropped cases against more than 50 companies that we can document have financial ties to the president or to his inner circle. So, let's take a look at one more case, one you have mentioned. Navy Federal Credit Union got caught by the CFPB charging illegal overdraft"
Testimony TRAHAN, LORI
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"But we are losing ground. Meta's Lama model was previously a leader in the open weight space, but it's now been overtaken by models from Chinese companies like"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances,...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"In the last few months, the technology companies have sort of seen the light. They created an industry accord against online scams and fraud in March. Meta, Microsoft, others signed on. And they've recently spoken with the strike force and talked about how much they've been able to crack down on their own"
Testimony DR. CHRIS MESEROLE
“The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Co...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Since our founding, we have worked with our six member firms, Anthropic, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to develop the security practices, scientific research, and information-sharing channels we need to responsibly manage the potential large-scale risks to public safety and security from frontier AI. My aim this morning is not to advocate for particular policies, but to help inform your discussion of the security challenges and opportunities presented by the most advanced cyber..."
Testimony CAITRIONA FITZGERALD
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"This bill would also make it harder to hold big tech accountable in court. Just last week, Meta, Snap, YouTube, and TikTok agreed to a $27 million settlement with a Many of the claims in that case relate to rules in this bill, so there's no way of knowing whether similar cases could move"
Testimony OLSZEWSKI, JOHNNY
Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America Fi...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"One week. He bought up to $5 million more NVIDIA stock in February, right before the company announced a major chip deal with Meta. It's pretty good luck if you ask me. If that's not bad enough, the President's son struck a multi-billion dollar crypto deal with a UAE state-backed"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"quote, begins actual construction to only require a Clean Air Act permit before constructing emitting units, not other facility components. And what this means is that a data center that relies on gas-polluting generators like those in my community, they'd be able to begin millions of dollars worth of construction without permits, and more importantly, without the public comment period that these permits require. One of the data center companies constructing a data center in my community is..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"But constituents have real questions, and they deserve answers. Meta has refused to engage with my community. We cannot let these big corporations have access to our natural resources without the public being involved, without there being a process. And so that is what my amendment would do, ensure that the public has the ability to have a public comment period before construction"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"The risks to me are horrendous. I've asked both ARPA and the Surgeon General's Office to either do meta-reviews or to do base studies on this issue so that we can better inform the American public. Limb"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine maritime unmanned surface vessels.
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"And I understand it's growing. Admiral, I was very interested in your three meta-trends in your testimony, and particularly as to the growing capability of asymmetric warfare, cheap, massed, unmanned warfare. We've seen it in"
Testimony ADMIRAL SAMUEL PAPARO
Hearings to examine maritime unmanned surface vessels.
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"I acknowledge it, sir, and the Secretary is addressing it, as I can see. Senator Blumenthal, I think the Chinese are deeply worried about it, and they're trying to reckon with it as we do, which I think is why all of us together have got to reckon with these three meta-trends and the mega-trend around it and the changing character of warfare. I think that their view is that they want to build a drone force that would be a"
Testimony ADMIRAL SAMUEL PAPARO
Hearings to examine maritime unmanned surface vessels.
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"But the proliferation of mass cheap kill makes it more like a 20 to 1 or a 100 to 1 ratio. And all things being equal, if all sides are employing to their utmost, it makes assault much more costly and favors the defender. And so we can't move fast enough in this meta-trend. And what characterizes it is not that it is"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific C...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"And I understand it's growing. Admiral, I was very interested in your three meta-trends in your testimony, and particularly as to the growing capability of asymmetric warfare, cheap, massed, unmanned warfare. We've seen it in"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific C...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"I acknowledge it, sir, and the Secretary is addressing it, as I can see. Senator Blumenthal, I think the Chinese are deeply worried about it, and they're trying to reckon with it as we do, which I think is why all of us together have got to reckon with these three meta-trends and the mega-trend around it and the changing character of warfare. I think that their view is that they want to build a drone force that would be a"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific C...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"But the proliferation of mass cheap kill makes it more like a 20 to 1 or a 100 to 1 ratio. And all things being equal, if all sides are employing to their utmost, it makes assault much more costly and favors the defender. And so we can't move fast enough in this meta-trend. And what characterizes it is not that it is"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on feder...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on feder...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"and failure after failure. This decision, which involved a verdict, a civil verdict of almost $400 million against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram, is an indication that Section 230 is not impregnable. That section has protected these social media vendors for a decade or more, and it should be brought"
Testimony BLACKBURN, MARSHA
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on feder...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"So talk with me how you would use that experience as you move to the bench. I think after the New Mexico decision yesterday, that verdict against META, we are going to see more of these that will come forward in the protection of our children. Mr. Rikhye, you come from an area that I think, the Virgin Islands, it's a different"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sheria Akins Clarke, to be Unit...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sheria Akins Clarke, to be Unit...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"and failure after failure. This decision, which involved a verdict, a civil verdict of almost $400 million against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram, is an indication that Section 230 is not impregnable. That section has protected these social media vendors for a decade or more, and it should be brought"
Testimony BLACKBURN, MARSHA
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sheria Akins Clarke, to be Unit...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"So talk with me how you would use that experience as you move to the bench. I think after the New Mexico decision yesterday, that verdict against META, we are going to see more of these that will come forward in the protection of our children. Mr. Rickey, you come from an area that I think, the Virgin Islands, it's a different"
Testimony BLACKBURN, MARSHA
Business meeting to consider S.1682, to direct the Consumer Product Sa...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"digital assets. So it's unfortunate they've decided to stall on this and not move forward. I do want to draw the committee's attention to the decision against Meta in the New Mexico case. And that verdict that was announced yesterday. that"
Testimony BRAD CARSON
Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"often discovered that the law offers them little recourse. Section 230 may be the 26 words that created the Internet, but they also are the 26 words that have visited irrevocable harm to generations of children. I recount the history of Section 230 because Congress now faces a structurally equivalent moment regarding artificial intelligence. Some have suggested freezing state law developments while enacting no comprehensive federal regulation of the technology. Section 230 is what I would call..."
Testimony MURPHY, GREGORY F.
Hidden Wounds: Effectively Supporting Veterans with TBI
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Mar 5, 2026
"Are you familiar, by any chance, with the work of Dr. Joseph Marone at the University of Pittsburgh, who does the same work? All right, please, if you will, for professional education, please familiarize yourself with his work. I'd like to submit for a record a meta-analysis done in the frontiers of neuroscience in October of 2023, talking about the multiple, multiple studies that show hyperbaric oxygen for veterans, for PTSD, shows an improvement not only in clinical data and clinical..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"full power of the government to silence or intimidate people who disagree with it and nowhere is that more true than with the department of homeland security when people have dared to speak out or push back they've been assaulted arrested and now even killed but what may have flown under the radar is that over the past year DHS has been ramping up its use of a lesser known tool known as administrative subpoenas or summons under your leadership DHS has sent record numbers of these summons to..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"protected first amendment speech so I want to look at two recent examples of these DHS summons involving Americans in the Philadelphia suburbs which I represent in September DHS targeted Facebook and Instagram accounts run by Monaco community watch a grassroots group that provides information about public ice activities in Montgomery County Pennsylvania and shares rights and other resources to support its diverse community DHS demanded that meta turn over the identity of the administrator in..."
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"Mr. Hosswhite. Louisiana has a big meta AI center in northeast Louisiana. There's one just announced with Amazon in northwest"