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Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users

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Questioner: Cynthia LummisWitness: Adam Mosseri

Narrative: KnowledgeNarrative: Profits over SafetyHarm: Addiction & problematic use
Q. · Question

Cynthia Lummis

A. · Response

Adam Mosseri

QuestionCites Instagram's own Head of Safety and Well-Being naming a specific viewing-duration threshold (~20 minutes) for negative mental-health impact, and asks how that squares with a time-on-platform-driven business model.

ResponseMosseri doesn't dispute the correlation, reframes "more time = more effect" as symmetric (positive or negative), and points to daily-limit tools and in-progress parental controls rather than addressing the business-model tension directly.