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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

Testimony

Questioner: Lindsey Graham

Harm: Child sexual exploitationDesign feature: Direct MessagingDesign feature: HashtagsInitiative: Privacy by Default (Teens)
Q. · Question

Lindsey Graham

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionAsked how a minor is expected to be able to distinguish safe from predatory communication given Meta's control-based safety framing.

ResponseRather than addressing minors' cognitive ability to judge safe vs. predatory contact, Meta answers with a list of default privacy/messaging restrictions applied automatically to under-16 accounts.