Back to this hearing · All hearings

Published hearing exchange

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

Testimony

Questioner: Mike Lee

Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: Child sexual exploitationDesign feature: Direct MessagingDesign feature: Friend/Account SuggestionsInitiative: Content Moderation
Q. · Question

Mike Lee

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionCiting the 2022 Thorn Report (1 in 5 minors experienced online sexual interactions; 1 in 6 with someone posing as an adult), Lee asks what more Meta will do given that adults can pose as minors to evade age-based messaging restrictions.

ResponseMeta describes impersonation-detection technology, default private teen accounts, adult-to-teen messaging restrictions, suspicious-account detection, and the new nudity-protection feature for Instagram DMs, but does not directly address the adult-posing-as-minor loophole Lee raised.