Meta & Children's Online Safety

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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

Testimony

Questioner: Cynthia LummisWitness: Antigone Davis

Watch at 1:56:05

Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: Suicide & self-injuryHarm: Body image & eating disordersDesign feature: Content Algorithm
Q. · Question

Cynthia Lummis

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionLummis asks whether Facebook uses data on the "2 out of 10" users with negative experiences to adapt its product for kids being harmed.

ResponseDavis describes the same "nudges" toward uplifting content approach mentioned elsewhere in the hearing.