Meta & Children's Online Safety

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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis

Testimony

Questioner: Mike LeeWitness: Mark Zuckerberg

Watch at 1:38:20

Harm: Child sexual exploitationDesign feature: Direct MessagingInitiative: Encryption
Q. · Question

Mike Lee

A. · Response

Mark Zuckerberg

QuestionNotes the tension between end-to-end encryption's privacy benefits and its use for grooming/CSAM sharing, and asks whether Meta allows minors to use encrypted messaging (WhatsApp) and at what minimum age.

ResponseZuckerberg confirms minors as young as 13 can use encrypted WhatsApp messaging.