Meta & Children's Online Safety

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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

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Questioner: Marsha BlackburnWitness: Antigone Davis

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Narrative: Youth TargetingNarrative: ConcealmentInitiative: TweensInitiative: Children's Data Privacy
Q. · Question

Marsha Blackburn

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionCiting a WSJ-reported internal document about future product targeting ("tweens... as young as eight"), Blackburn asks point-blank whether Facebook conducts market research on tweens, and accuses Facebook of COPPA-violating data collection on children.

ResponseDavis says the cited document is actually about an age-appropriate design code framework (referencing Sen. Markey's work), not Facebook's own market-research targeting decision; does not directly answer yes/no.