Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users

QuestionAsks what specific steps Meta has taken to give academic researchers access to Instagram data for studying mental-health effects on children and young adults specifically.

ResponseMeta describes general researcher-access infrastructure (FORT, Data for Good, Ad Library) and says it will adapt its 2020-election-research collaboration methodology to well-being research going forward, without describing anything already built specifically for child/youth mental-health research.