Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers

QuestionCiting the WSJ's "Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic For Teen Girls" article and its internal research slides (1-in-3 body image, anxiety/depression, 13%/6% suicidal-ideation-traced-to-Instagram statistics), Cruz asks whether Mark Zuckerberg personally knew about this research, and whether Satterfield — as VP of privacy and public policy — knew about it himself.

ResponseSatterfield doesn't know whether Zuckerberg personally knew about the research, says he himself only became familiar with it through the WSJ article (not before), and disputes only the general characterization that Meta's products are "unsafe."