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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms

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Questioner: Marsha BlackburnWitness: Antigone Davis

Narrative: KnowledgeInitiative: Children's Data Privacy
Q. · Question

Marsha Blackburn

A. · Response

Antigone Davis

QuestionBlackburn asks how Facebook recruits child/teen research participants and whether it employs child psychologists or therapists for this work.

ResponseFacebook confirms it does employ researchers with clinical/developmental psychology and pediatric backgrounds (among other fields), and describes email/in-app recruitment plus a third-party parent panel for Messenger Kids research.