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Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers

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Questioner: Richard BlumenthalWitness: Steve Satterfield

Narrative: ConcealmentHarm: Suicide & self-injury
Q. · Question

Richard Blumenthal

A. · Response

Steve Satterfield

QuestionCiting Nick Clegg's "nascent and evolving" characterization and Meta's own research finding 13% of British and 6% of American users traced suicidal ideation to Instagram, Blumenthal asks why this isn't misleading and presses for an explanation.

ResponseSatterfield defends Clegg's "nascent and evolving" characterization as accurate and offers only a commitment to "work with" Blumenthal's staff, without addressing the specific 13%/6% suicidal-ideation statistics.