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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Questioner: Ben Ray LujánWitness: Antigone Davis
Narrative: ConcealmentInitiative: U13 Classifiers/Age-Verification
Q. · Question
Ben Ray Luján
A. · Response
Antigone Davis
QuestionCiting whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony that underage users are on the platform "in far greater numbers than anyone is aware," Luján asks whether Facebook will publish its underage-detection methodology.
ResponseFacebook explicitly refuses to publish the detection methodology, stating outright that detailed disclosure would give evaders a roadmap — a direct, reasoned "no" rather than a dodge.