A day after Reuters reported that Meta's AI rules permitted children to have "sensual" chats, a Republican senator launched an investigation into the tech giant. On Friday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley posted a letter he sent to Mark Zuckerberg along with the announcement of the investigation.

Two Republican senators have called for a congressional investigation into Meta after a leaked document revealed chatbots were allowed to engage in romantic or sensual conversations with children.

The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, chaired by Hawley, will investigate whether Meta's technology could be exploited - or worse, whether flaws in the system a...