Haugen said she thinks most people are unaware of how far behind the U.S. is when it comes to social media regulation.
“This is like we’re back in 1965, we don’t have seatbelt laws yet,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Congress failed to pass many of the most aggressive bills targeting tech in 2022. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said bipartisan support exists for many of these bills, and many have made it onto the Senate floor. But she said the tech lobby is so powerful that bills with “strong, bipartisan support” can fall apart “within 24 hours.”
Klobuchar said on Sunday that things are only going to change with social media companies when Americans decide they have had enough.
“We are lagging behind,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It is time for 2023, let it be our resolution, that we finally pass one of these bills.”
