Back to this hearing · All hearings

Published hearing exchange

Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users

Testimony

Questioner: Richard BlumenthalWitness: Adam Mosseri

Harm: Hate speech
Q. · Question

Richard Blumenthal

A. · Response

Adam Mosseri

QuestionDescribes real classroom disruption from Instagram "gossip" accounts and asks what educator support and gossip-account-specific enforcement Instagram provides.

ResponseMeta describes general anti-bullying tools (Restrict, Hidden Words, Limits, comment warnings) and enforcement statistics but never directly answers whether or how it specifically targets "gossip" accounts as a category, or how quickly reported gossip accounts are acted on.