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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

Testimony

Questioner: Richard BlumenthalWitness: Antigone Davis

Narrative: ConcealmentNarrative: Youth TargetingDesign feature: Secondary/Secret Accounts
Q. · Question

Richard Blumenthal

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionBlumenthal directly asks Davis to commit to ending "Finstas" (secret teen second accounts).

ResponseDavis again frames Finstas as teen-driven behavior rather than a Facebook product/feature, and doesn't commit to ending anything. Blumenthal explicitly says on the record this isn't a real answer.