Meta & Children's Online Safety

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

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Questioner: Ted Cruz

Harm: Child sexual exploitationDesign feature: HashtagsDesign feature: Friend/Account SuggestionsDesign feature: Notifications
Q. · Question

Ted Cruz

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionHow many Instagram profiles of believed-under-18 users were accessed via the flagged hashtags/search terms?

ResponseMeta says it does not track this figure, and instead describes default-private teen accounts and measures limiting "potentially suspicious" adult accounts from finding/interacting with teen profiles.