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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Questioner: Ben Ray LujánWitness: Antigone Davis
Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: Suicide & self-injuryHarm: Hate speech
Q. · Question
Ben Ray Luján
A. · Response
Antigone Davis
QuestionLuján asks, yes/no, whether Facebook tests platform changes for their effect on users' propensity toward violent/hateful language, and separately toward self-harm ideation.
ResponseDavis doesn't answer the hateful-language question directly; on self-harm, cites the ~0.5% figure of young users tracing first suicidal thoughts to the platform and describes the suicide-prevention reporting flow.