Meta & Children's Online Safety

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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

Testimony

Questioner: Dan SullivanWitness: Antigone Davis

Watch at 2:30:36

Narrative: Profits over SafetyHarm: Addiction & problematic useInitiative: Teen Time Spent Optimization
Q. · Question

Dan Sullivan

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionSullivan cites China's regulatory time-limits on teen social media/gaming use and asks whether the U.S. government should consider similar mandated limits, since he doesn't trust the industry to self-regulate.

ResponseDavis argues parental controls (not government mandates) are the right approach, and cites COVID-era connectivity benefits as a complicating factor.