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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Questioner: Amy KlobucharWitness: Antigone Davis
Narrative: KnowledgeInitiative: U13 Classifiers/Age-Verification
Q. · Question
Amy Klobuchar
A. · Response
Antigone Davis
QuestionKlobuchar asks for the Facebook-specific (not just Instagram) under-13 account removal count, and who is ultimately responsible for under-13 account-removal policy.
ResponseFacebook gives the 2.6M Facebook / 850K Instagram removal figures and describes its age-estimation AI methodology (including the "Happy 21st Bday" signal-detection approach); does not name a single individual with ultimate responsibility, instead describing a distributed policy team/process.