WASHINGTON: Three social media networks massively popular with the youngest users — TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube — tried to convince skeptical US lawmakers Tuesday they are safe as worry about Facebook’s potential harms spills over to other platforms.
Video-sharing app TikTok and photo network Snapchat, in their first testimony to US senators, argued they are built to protect against the mental health and safety risks present on social media.
“Your defense is, ‘We’re not Facebook,'” Senator Richard Blumenthal told the networks’ representatives. “Being different from Facebook is…
