Republicans are fighting back. They are ready to protect Americans from any threats.
And a Republican Senator has taken Big Tech head on during an intense Senate hearing.
The gloves are off in the battle against Big Tech’s assault on America’s families. Just days ago, Senator Marsha Blackburn, the fierce Tennessee Republican who’s got her eyes locked on the governor’s mansion, hauled Meta’s dirty laundry into the light during a blistering Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. Whistleblowers – real American heroes risking it all – laid bare how Mark Zuckerberg’s cash machine knowingly shoved kids into a virtual h*llhole of predators, p*rverts, and poison.
Picture this: innocent boys and girls, strapped into Meta’s VR headsets, only to get propositioned for s*x by strangers in the metaverse. Jason Sattizahn and Cayce Savage, two ex-Meta researchers testified under oath that the company they slaved for buried mountains of d*mning evidence. “They were hired to purportedly make the platform safer for children, and what they found was a company that knew their products were unsafe. And they just did not care,” Blackburn stated.
Blackburn didn’t mince words on the human cost. “Instead of heeding serious concerns about widespread child harm on their platforms, Meta silenced employees who dared to come forward, buried egregious evidence, and shamelessly used innocent kids as pawns to line their pockets,” she fired off. Six whistleblowers in total have stepped up, handing over thousands of internal docs to Congress, the SEC, and the FTC. One gut-wrenching tale? A kid under 10 in a 2023 German study gets hit with s*xual advances – and Meta’s legal eagles order the researchers to wipe it clean, all to dodge lawsuits.
Zuckerberg’s metaverse fever dream, kicked off with the 2014 Oculus buyout and the full Meta rebrand, was sold as the next frontier. Billions flushed down that toilet, chasing a digital utopia while turning Horizon Worlds into a predator’s playground. Kids under 13 – against the rules – flood in, and Meta? They slap on flimsy filters like “personal boundaries” and pretend it’s Fort Knox. But the whistleblowers say otherwise: surveys show nearly half of VR users hit with harm, one in ten slammed with severe stuff like racism or s*xual sleaze. Blackburn’s grilling Sattizahn on Meta’s AI chatbots flirting with minors? His answer: No shock there. This company’s wired for exploitation.
Meta’s spin doctors are in overdrive, whining about “selectively leaked internal documents” crafting a “false narrative.” They’ve greenlit 180 youth safety studies since 2022, they claim, and built “automatic protections” for teens. If those safeguards worked, why the cover-up? Why instruct researchers to eject kids from studies if they spill about harms? It’s all a smokescreen to shield the bottom line, and everyday Americans – the truckers, farmers, and factory workers – see right through it. Senator Josh Hawley, Blackburn’s Missouri ally, ripped the mask off: Open the courts to parents so they can sue these Silicon Valley vampires dry.
Blackburn’s firing on all cylinders, demanding the FTC launch a full probe into Meta’s kid-killing machine. But she’s not waiting for bureaucrats; she’s rallying the troops for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), the bipartisan hammer she’s co-sponsoring with Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal.
Reintroduced in May 2025 with muscle from Majority Leader John Thune and even Chuck Schumer, this bill’s got teeth: a “duty of care” that forces platforms to shield minors from abuse, bullying, and worse, plus parent toolboxes to lock down the digital gates. “You’ve got a duty of care that it would require, and also the ability of parents to have a toolbox so that they can set certain parameters for their children, so that being in the virtual space is a healthy, not a harmful space,” she laid it out plain.
KOSA sailed through the Senate last year with 91 votes, a rare Washington win for working families. But the House bottled it up amid free speech squawks from the usual suspects. Critics like Rand Paul cry vagueness, but Blackburn shuts that down hard: “I always find it so curious that they talk about free speech as being their concern. In the physical world, we have laws on child endangerment. We have laws that would prohibit you from exposing a child to predators, p*dophiles, s*x traffickers, human traffickers, drug traffickers.”
She hammered it home: “We have laws that say you cannot sell alcohol, you cannot sell tobacco, you cannot expose a child to p*rnography. But when it comes to the virtual space, people want to act like you can’t have anything that would restrict exposure of these harms to a child. So this is not a free speech issue.” Blackburn’s bill tweaks the old COPPA privacy law, mandates age checks, and sets up a council of parents and experts – not DC insiders – to keep the pressure on. It’s stalled in committee now, but with President Trump’s pen waiting, this populist powerhouse could smash through.
Parents aren’t buying the excuses anymore. Brian Montgomery, whose son fell victim to Instagram s*xtortion, joined Blackburn on her podcast to gut-punch the nation with his story. “Meta’s greed permeates everything they do,” says Libby Liu of Whistleblower Aid, backing these brave souls. From rural Tennessee to flyover country, moms and dads are rising up, tired of Zuckerberg’s algorithms turning their babies into data fodder. Blackburn’s X feed is a war drum: “Parents are tired of this; kids are tired of this,” she posted, channeling the rage of a movement that’s had enough.
This scandal’s just the tip of the iceberg. Meta’s AI bots? Caught red-handed in “sensual” chats with kids, per a bombshell report Blackburn’s chasing with a full congressional probe. Their pivot to AI won’t wash away the VR blood on their hands. Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat ranking member, tied it to a string of Meta whistleblowers and past hearings – this is a pattern of elite arrogance, folks, not a one-off. Chuck Grassley, Iowa’s elder statesman, teamed with Blackburn and Hawley for a letter torching Zuckerberg for dodging questions on kid safeguards.
Blackburn’s no stranger to this fight. Fresh off her 2024 reelection stomp, she’s gunning for Tennessee governor in 2026, but first, she’s settling scores with Big Tech. “The new allegations from these courageous whistleblowers would make any parent’s stomach churn,” she tweeted, vowing to drag Meta before the bar of justice. She’s hosted pressers with grieving parents, grilled execs in hearings, and won’t quit till KOSA’s law. “Tune in now to watch my hearing and hear two @Meta whistleblowers expose how the company covered up and buried child safety research,” she urged on X, live-streaming the takedown.
The populist fire’s spreading. Even Apple, Meta’s arch-rival, backs KOSA, seeing a chance to kneecap Zuckerberg while waving the family-values flag. Groups from the Heritage Foundation to Focus on the Family are all-in, proving this ain’t left-right – it’s right-wrong, America First versus corporate greed. Critics whine about overreach, but as Blackburn says, “It’s why we’re intent on passing the Kids Online Safety Act.”
As the dust settles from this week’s showdown, one thing’s crystal: Meta’s house of cards is crumbling. Blackburn’s invitation stands: “If anyone from @Meta wants to challenge the facts discussed in yesterday’s hearing, they know where to find me.”
But Zuckerberg’s too busy counting billions to face the music. Parents, workers, veterans – the silent majority – are done being pawns. We’ve got the votes in the Senate; now it’s time to storm the House and deliver a knockout to these tech tyrants.
KOSA isn’t just a bill; it’s a declaration of war on the elites who’ve turned the internet into a child-eating monster. Blackburn’s leading the charge, from her Unmuted podcast rants to the Senate floor, echoing the cries of moms like Deb Schmill, whose daughter Becca was lost to social media’s grip. “We parents are no match for Big Tech and their multi-million-dollar lobbying arm,” she says.
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