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

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Questioner: Peter Welch

Narrative: KnowledgeNarrative: Concealment
Q. · Question

Peter Welch

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionWelch asked how many Meta employees, quarterly since 2012, were dedicated to studying Facebook/Instagram's negative impacts on under-18 users, broken out by platform.

ResponseMeta says it does not track headcount that way, and points to its ~40,000-person overall safety/security workforce and $20B+ integrity investment despite 2023 restructuring/layoffs.