Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

QuestionLee confronts Davis with a specific third-party experiment (Technology Transparency Project) showing Facebook approved ads for alcohol, prescription drugs, vaping, eating-disorder tips, and dating profiles targeted at 9.1 million 13-17-year-olds — directly contradicting her live testimony that such ads aren't allowed.

ResponseFacebook concedes the ads violated its own policies and says they "ultimately did not run" (because TTP itself stopped them, not because Facebook caught them), announces a policy change restricting under-18 ad targeting to age/gender/location only going forward.