Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri deserves credit for badgering Mark Zuckerberg into offering an apology last week to families of children victimized by sexual predation on social media. At the same time, it’s not as if this was unprecedented: Zuckerberg has a lot of experience saying he’s sorry in public, going back to when he was a teenager.

The hard part, after someone apologizes, is making amends. And here’s where Hawley and his fellow Republicans should enlist the help of their Democratic colleagues. When it comes to the relationship between business and government, Democrats know that you can’t just ask executives to be more mindful. You need to make actual rules and regulations that force the pursuit of profit to advance the public interest.

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Zuckerberg’s Apology Isn’t Enough

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05.02.2024

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri deserves credit for badgering Mark Zuckerberg into offering an apology last week to families of children victimized by sexual predation on social media. At........

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