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WASHINGTON — Tech CEOs are set to testify Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about child safety issues on social media platforms and will offer rare policy commitments and regulatory endorsements, company representatives said.

The hearing, which has attracted significant attention in the tech industry and Washington, will bring together the CEOs of X, TikTok, Discord, Meta and Snap to address concerns and questions about how platforms are considering their impact on children.

Such committee hearings with tech CEOs have often been adversarial, and this hearing is projected to be no different. But representatives from some of the tech companies called to testify said their CEOs will offer olive branches to senators and the public in the form of legislative endorsements and policy assurances.

X’s chief of U.S. and Canadian public policy, Wifredo Fernandez, told NBC News that CEO Linda Yaccarino would offer support for the SHIELD Act and other child safety legislation.

The SHIELD Act, introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., would criminalize the transmission of nonconsensual intimate images and sexualized depictions of children.

Other child safety laws proposed in the Senate include the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, which would create a “duty of care” for social media companies that recommend content to minors. Also introduced in the Senate is the Stop CSAM Act (CSAM stands for child sexual abuse material), which aims to expand protections for minor victims, enhance child abuse reporting requirements and make it easier for victims to request that content be removed from platforms.

Last week, Snap was one of the first major social media platforms to stand behind KOSA, telling Politico that the legislation aligned with its existing policies.

In November, Meta published a blog post advocating for federal legislation that “requires app stores to get parents’ approval whenever their teens under 16 download apps.”

Tech companies have been slow to advocate for legislation that would create regulation in their industry.

A source close to the Senate Judiciary Committee said part of the larger strategy behind the hearings was to publicly pressure CEOs for such commitments and create a pathway to pass legislation this year.

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