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

Testimony

Questioner: Ted Cruz

Narrative: KnowledgeNarrative: ConcealmentDesign feature: NotificationsInitiative: U13 Classifiers/Age-VerificationInitiative: Quiet ModeInitiative: Take a BreakInitiative: Privacy by Default (Teens)
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Ted Cruz

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Respondent not recorded

QuestionDoes Meta believe a policy of "willful ignorance" about child users' ages meets its responsibility to protect underage users?

ResponseMeta explicitly rejects the "willfully ignorant" characterization, citing its $20B+ safety/security investment since 2016, then re-walks through its age-checkpoint detection pipeline and parental-supervision-tool/legislative-framework boilerplate already given in Questions 18 and 24(a)/(d-e).