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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

Testimony

Questioner: Marsha BlackburnWitness: Antigone Davis

Harm: Body image & eating disordersDesign feature: Content Algorithm
Q. · Question

Marsha Blackburn

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionAsks why a test account set up as a 13-year-old immediately received eating-disorder and self-harm content, and what AI drove that.

ResponseDenies directing users to eating-disorder content, calls it a policy violation, and cites AI used to find and remove it.