Joe Allen

Thank you very much.

See you tomorrow, sir.

Yes, Steve, I'm here in front of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., with Shelby Knox of Parents Together and a number of parents who have lost their children to social media and artificial intelligence.

They've been kind enough to tell their stories, and they're here trying to push back on the tech companies and those currently in the administration who are pushing for federal preemption

to either defang or stop state-level legislation to prevent any further damage.

Shelby Knox with Parents Together.

Shelby, can you just tell us about what organizations put this together?

and what this projection behind us really is trying to communicate to the public?

Parents Together, how does the organization operate?

What do you do there?

Can you tell me a little bit about the Kids Online Safety Act?

It's going to the House tomorrow.

Can you give us an update on where it stands right now?

Has it been defanged as it moves forward through the Congress?

And there's language in the new Kids Online Safety Act that would allow for federal preemption.

Can you tell us a little bit about that?

On the tech company side, has anyone from these tech companies reached out to any of you to either offer their condolences or give any assurance?

So just to get an idea of the sorts of things that these tech companies are pushing, Meta recently, it was revealed, allowed for children to be groomed on their platform.

I think that it took something like 16 or 17 times

for a complaint to be filed for them to even take it down.