Photo: (Left to right) Discord CEO Jason Citron, Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing entitled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis” on Capitol Hill on Jan. 31, 2024. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

Senators lit into the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord on Wednesday morning, attacking them on their ability to keep kids safe from sexual exploitation online and drug sales on their sites — as well as the mental health impact of their immensely popular platforms.

“Collectively, your platforms really suck at policing themselves,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to the group — one of several highly barbed lines directed at the executives, many of which elicited applause from a room packed with advocates, victims and other players in the emotional national debate about child safety online.

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