Meta & Children's Online Safety

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Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers

Testimony

Questioner: Josh HawleyWitness: Steve Satterfield

Watch at 1:29:14

Narrative: Youth TargetingNarrative: Profits over SafetyHarm: Targeted advertisingOther Topics: Behavioral Targeting
Q. · Question

Josh Hawley

A. · Response

Steve Satterfield

QuestionHawley asks why Meta should be permitted to advertise to teenagers at all, and why Congress shouldn't simply prohibit it.

ResponseSatterfield defends continuing to advertise to teens as necessary to "support" the service, citing unspecified "additional protections" already in place.