WASHINGTON šC ¡°Facebook and Big Tech are facing a Big Tobacco moment,¡± Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said this past week when a whistleblower testified about how the social media company¡¯s products harmed teenagers.
¡°I think that that¡¯s an appropriate analogy,¡± Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican, added later.
The whistleblower¡¯s testimony, and the thousands of internal documents she shared with lawmakers, generated unusual bipartisan bonhomie in a divided Washington. Senators said it was time for Congress to coalesce around new regulations to rein in the company and perhaps the technology industry as a whole.
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