FBI Director Kash Patel said that social media is “wildly out of control” in its ability to radicalize users and warned about the proliferation of abusive images created by generative artificial intelligence. Patel urged Congress to take action against tech companies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.

In a back and forth with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Patel said “the data shows that social media is wildly out of control when it comes to radicalizing.”

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Patel agreed with Graham that Americans both have the right to free speech and that the

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