Meta & Children's Online Safety

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

Testimony

Questioner: Ted Cruz

Harm: Targeted advertisingDesign feature: NotificationsInitiative: Quiet ModeInitiative: Take a BreakInitiative: Privacy by Default (Teens)
Q. · Question

Ted Cruz

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionGiven Meta's push for app-store-level parental approval, does Meta believe it should itself take responsibility for children/teens on its platforms by seeking parental approval, and why?

ResponseMeta answers by describing its existing parental supervision tools/adoption stats and reiterating support for app-store-level parental approval legislation, without directly stating whether Meta itself bears responsibility.