Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal Press Pinterest on Protecting Girls From Online Predators
U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) co-signed a letter sent on March 14 to the CEO of the online photo sharing platform Pinterest, seeking information about what the company is doing to prevent pedophiles using its technology to exploit girls.
Blackburn and Blumenthal authored the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022, which has yet to make it out of the Senate.
The senators sent the letter to Pinterest CEO Bill Ready in the wake of a March 9 NBC News investigative story on how men are using Pinterest algorithms to search out and locate individual photos and videos that young girls post of themselves, and then make sexually themed collections of that media with sexually suggestive titles….