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Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users

Testimony

Questioner: Todd YoungWitness: Adam Mosseri

Narrative: Knowledge
Q. · Question

Todd Young

A. · Response

Adam Mosseri

QuestionAsks whether Instagram employs behavioral scientists and whether Mosseri would be informed if they discovered a negativity bias affecting teenage girls specifically.

ResponseMosseri confirms data scientists exist and says he'd generally expect to be kept informed of important safety findings, without directly committing on the record to being told of a negativity-bias finding specifically.