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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

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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.