Big Tech

Senate Committee Unanimously Advances Hawley, Durbin Bill Stopping Child Sex Abuse Materials

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) advanced their STOP CSAM Act unanimously through a Senate Judiciary Committee markup. The legislation would crack down on the proliferation of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) by allowing victims to sue companies that host it. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.,), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.)...

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Hawley, Durbin Reintroduce Bill Combatting Online Child Sexual Abuse Material 

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) reintroduced the STOP CSAM Act. The legislation will crack down on the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online by allowing victims to sue companies that host it. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) have cosponsored the bill.The Senators announced the legislation's reintroduction in February ahead of their joint hearing highlighting witnesses impacted by CSAM,...

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Hawley Op-Ed: Break Up Big Tech Behemoths to Reclaim American Freedom

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) | April 30, 2025 | The New York Post I distinctly remember the time Mark Zuckerberg came to see me in my office.It was five years ago now, back when the Facebook founder was at the height of his “move fast and break things” stardom.I was a new senator and a skeptic.I thought his company — now Meta — was breaking too many things: like the right to free speech, or the right to control your personal data, or the right of your kids to have a sane...

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‘We Look Forward to Hearing the Truth’: Hawley Demands Zuckerberg Testify Under Oath Following Meta Whistleblower Hearing

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)—Chairman of the the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism—sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, inviting him to testify under oath following former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams's explosive allegations against the Big Tech giant. In a subcommittee hearing yesterday, Wynn-Williams detailed Meta's alleged censorship collusion with the Chinese Communist Party, the company's mishandling of artificial...

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Hawley Hosts Facebook Whistleblower, Exposes Company’s Stunning Complicity with China

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) chaired a hearing in the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism featuring Facebook corporate whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams.Wynn-Williams was Facebook’s first director of public policy, leading the company’s outreach efforts around the world. She became a whistleblower when she exposed explosive details of her company’s long-term collusion with the Chinese Communist Party.Hawley said the company went "scorched earth" to keep...

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ICYMI: Hawley Calls for ‘Liberty and Prosperity-Enhancing’ Future at Tech Conference 

Yesterday U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) joined startup founders, policy experts, journalists, and other thought leaders at the Little Tech Competition Summit in Washington D.C. The Senator spoke on Big Tech's monopolistic tendencies and the future of artificial intelligence (AI) policy. "We've got to figure out a path forward that is liberty and prosperity-enhancing," Senator Hawley said. "Where we can say--honestly--to the middle class in this country,...

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Hawley Announces Facebook Whistleblower to Testify Before His Subcommittee Next Week

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced that Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify before his Judiciary subcommittee next week on allegations that Facebook cooperated with the Communist regime in China to build censorship tools, punish dissidents, and make American users' data available for Chinese use. Big News — Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify NEXT WEEK in public, under oath, before my judiciary subcommittee re: her explosive evidence of...

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Hawley Exposes Big Tech as Willing Collaborators in Censorship: ‘They Own It’

Today in a hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) exposed how Big Tech uses its market power to squelch competition, suppress conservative voices, and even sway voters and control elections, such as when they buried the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story just days before the 2020 presidential election.  "It was their decision. They own it. And truthfully Facebook and others had a pattern of...

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Senator Hawley Chairs Hearing on Fighting Online Child Sexual Abuse Material, Calls for Empowering Big Tech’s Victims

Today in the first Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing of the 119th Congress, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)—chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, alongside Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)—urged the Committee to quickly pass their marquee legislation, the STOP CSAM Act, to better protect children online. Senator Hawley focused on the rapid rise in online child exploitation material, emphasizing that victims...

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Hawley to Lead Hearing with Durbin on Combatting CSAM, Protecting Kids Online

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)—Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism—will convene a hearing, alongside Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), on the need to pass the lawmakers' legislation to combat the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) crisis online. This first Judiciary subcommittee hearing of the 119th Congress will feature witnesses directly or indirectly impacted by CSAM, including survivors, advocates, and law enforcement experts....

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