National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s Post

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He wanted a day in Washington, DC We just got back from the Department of Homeland Security briefing by Secretary Christy Nome, relaunching the voice office. We got a shout out there and we'll post about that later. But what a day on all things matter, Haley. Crazy stuff. Yeah, this hearing in this subcommittee, this U.S. Senate judiciary was had a whistleblower from Meta, Sarah Lynn Williams, who was sharing about all that she witnessed there. Two key things that happened that relate to our issues. One, she was sharing about the fact that Meta is tracking children's online activity to such an extent that they're even tracking their emotions, their negative emotions. One example she gave was that if a teenage girl deletes a selfie, Facebook will give her a beauty ad product to try to sell her something because they can recognize that she's feeling insecure. And to me, that's so fascinating because we often hear with these really common sense child safety. Regulations, they say, well, everything's a threat to privacy, but clearly, their motivation is not privacy. They're already tracking children down to the level of emotion, right? Their goal is not privacy. Their goal is profit. And then also Senator Durbin raised the issue of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which was fantastic because it's only been one week since our Dirty Dozen list launched. Yeah, yeah. Crazy times. But thank you for being in the arena with us, and more to come.