Sam Chapman, plaintiff in the Snap lawsuit, pushes for ‘Sammy’s Law’ to protect children from danger online on ‘America Reports.’

The father of a young fentanyl victim who said a drug dealer connected with his son on Snapchat for a transaction that led to the youth’s death rejected Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s comments during a hearing Wednesday on online child exploitation.

Sam Chapman told “America Reports” his son Sammy was 16 when he died from a fentanyl pill he purchased over Snapchat and has since launched a lawsuit against the app’s parent company, Snap.

Chapman expressed thorough dismay over what he heard from Spiegel and the other social media executives called to testify before the Senate on Wednesday, which also included X’s Linda Yaccarino, TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

“I heard a lot of mealy-mouthed apologies and a little bit of perjury and really a bunch of people who weren’t ready to support change,” he said, adding that he and other parents simply want the number of deaths linked to social media on grounds of sexual exploitation or drugs to begin to go down.

“Three quarters of our kids are on that platform, and all of the criminals and the sextortionists go there to find them.”

Chapman said that what is needed is mandatory preservation of the app’s “back-end” for police to be able to access in criminal situations.

In that regard, he added he is spearheading a push for Congress to pass “Sammy’s Law,” which would require social media platforms to provide “real-time application programming interfaces” for a parent or approved third-party to manage online interactions and account settings of their children.

The law was introduced in September by Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla. and co-sponsored by Reps. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., Kim Schrier, D-Wash., and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa.