Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has launched a formal investigation into Google following an alarming Senate hearing testimony on child trafficking and exploitation.
The senator described the testimony during a Senate hearing examining the spread of online child sex abuse material as “shocking.”
Hawley, who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, announced the investigation in a letter sent to Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.
“Yesterday, the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which I chair, convened a hearing to investigate gaps in enforcement efforts to stop child sex trafficking,” Hawley wrote.
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The testimony was shocking,” he added.
Hearing Highlights Scale of Online Abuse
The hearing, titled “Lost and Exploited: Confronting Child Trafficking and the Failure to Protect America’s Most Vulnerable,” examined the rapid growth of child sexual abuse material circulating online.
Witnesses told lawmakers that the scale of the problem has surged dramatically in recent years.
“Witnesses described an explosion of child sex abuse material (CSAM) online, which surpassed 100 million separate images and videos of suspected abuse in 2023 alone,” Hawley wrote.
Source: SGT Report
