The View host Whoopi Goldberg blamed parents when it comes to the dangers of social media for teenagers.

Thursday’s episode included a segment regarding this week’s Senate Judiciary hearing with the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snapchat, and Discord. The talk show hosts responded particularly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook and owns Instagram, as he refused to take responsibility for how teenagers are adversely affected by both platforms. While most of the other hosts put the blame on the platforms themselves, Goldberg said parents are also partially to blame.

“There’s also the elephant in the room, and that is, how can we ask them to police what’s going on when we’re not policing,” said Goldberg, a mother to one child. “I say this all the time: If you don’t put down your phone, your kids are not going to put down their phone. It’s hard, but death or life?”

Fellow host Sunny Hostin disagreed with Goldberg, saying she knows as a mother to a teenager that when screen time is taken away, her child gets “pissed.”

“To the personal responsibility point, I agree with you,” host Joy Behar said to Goldberg. “This is another incident where the thing is partly out of your control. Unless you say there is no social media allowed at all. There are parental controls, Whoopi.”

“It’s not parental controls,” Goldberg said. “Most of us want our children to be our friends. That is something that has brought us to where we are because nobody says to their kid: ‘I told you no, and I mean it.’ And it’s hard to do.”

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Goldberg’s response, which stood out among all her fellow hosts, was met with applause from the studio audience.

As more young people join all social media platforms, Zuckerberg was the only CEO to apologize to the families present at Wednesday’s hearing whose children had died by suicide after being bullied or exploited on his apps.