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Monday, October 13, 2025

VIDEO: Blackburn Eviscerates Meta for Suppressing Child Safety Research Following Whistleblower Allegations - US Senator Marsha Blackburn (.gov)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, led a hearing following new allegations from six whistleblowers that Meta buried child safety research. Two former Meta researchers testified at the hearing about the toxic culture at Meta. Watch the full hearing here.

Ahead of the hearing, Senator Blackburn led a press conference with Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee, Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and parents, Brian Montgomery and Maurine Molak, who lost their children following exposure to harms on social media. During the hearing and the press conference, Senator Blackburn renewed the call to pass her Kids Online Safety Act, which passed the Senate in a 91-3 vote last year to require Big Tech companies like Meta to make their platforms safer by design for children.

Click here to download video of Senator Blackburn’s opening remarks and here to watch the full hearing.

Click here to download photos and here to watch Senator Blackburn’s press conference.

SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING OPENING REMARKS AS PREPARED

“Good afternoon and thank you all for being here for this important hearing. We are here today to hear from Dr. Jason Sattizahn and Ms. Cayce Savage, two brave whistleblowers who have come forward to detail shocking allegations about Meta’s cover-up of deeply disturbing child safety research. They were hired to purportedly...



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