Senate panel forced to use U.S. marshals to subpoena CEOs of X and Discord to testify on protecting kids online
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Washington — A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the panel, announced Monday that they had issued the subpoenas to Discord CEO Jason Citron, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, formerly known as Twitter, "after repeated refusals to appear" during weeks of negotiations.
"Big Tech's failure to police itself at the expense of our kids cannot go unanswered," the two senators said in a statement.
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