Ed Markey

Facebook is like Big Tobacco, enticing young kids with that first cigarette, that first social media account designed to hook kids as users for life.

We need to give parents the ability just to say no one's home for you.

Algorithmic bias issues are a major issue for our democracy.

Yesterday Facebook had a platform outage but for years it has had a principles outage. Its only real principle is profit.

An internal Facebook document from 2020 that you revealed reads, 'Why do we care about tweens? They are a valuable but untapped audience.'

They know what they were doing. They knew where the violations were, and they know they are guilty.

Congress has to intervene. Privacy protection is long overdue.

We have is a bipartisan congressional roadmap for reform that will safeguard and protect children from Big Tech.

Parents deserve better tools to protect their children.

Time and time again Facebook says one thing and does another. Time and time again Facebook fails to abide by the commitments that they have made. Time and time again Facebook lies about what they are doing.

You are a 21st Century American hero warning our country of the danger for young people, for our democracy, and our Nation owes you just a huge debt of gratitude for the courage you're showing here today.

I feel pretty confident that it's Facebook who has done the misrepresenting to this committee.

Facebook appears to have misled the public and investors and if that's correct, it ought to face real penalties.

Parents are holding Facebook accountable because of your bravery, Ms. Haugen.

We need to update that law for the 21st Century.

You have asked us to act as a committee and Facebook has scores of lobbyists in this city right now coming in right after this hearing to tell us we can't act and they have been successful for a decade in blocking this committee from…

I think it's very clear that this entire industry fell into a regulatory black hole where it escaped the level of scrutiny which it absolutely has to have if the public safety is going to be protected.

Moving forward, the Biden Administration must now do better to address these safety concerns.

Fatal truck crashes continue to occur at an alarmingly high rate.

We need an agency which is not a lap dog but a watchdog to protect those who have been endangered by the lack of Federal oversight to the level which we know the safety of our country absolutely is dependent.

The United States must speak out consistently and jointly with allies and partners, impose costs and sanctions on those responsible, and help those fleeing persecution.

I continue to believe that the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups…

I am saddened by the unnecessary deaths of the 3,000 or so who were killed on 9/11.

Will you commit to supporting such a license, perhaps modeled on the general license OFAC issued for Ansarallah in Yemen prior to the designation revocation?

The possibility of a collapse was not zero percent, and it was not 1 percent.