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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

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Questioner: Richard BlumenthalWitness: Antigone Davis

Narrative: ConcealmentNarrative: KnowledgeHarm: Body image & eating disordersHarm: Suicide & self-injuryDesign feature: Content Algorithm
Q. · Question

Richard Blumenthal

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionCiting Molly Russell's death and an internal April 2021 document quoting a Facebook engineer saying "no one has decided to dial into eating disorders," Blumenthal says Facebook knowingly let its recommendation system push users toward eating-disorder/self-harm content.

ResponseDavis lists existing mitigations (suicide-prevention partnerships since 2006, eating-disorder reporting flow, resource pop-ups) without directly addressing the "no one has decided to dial into eating disorders" internal quote.

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