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Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers
Questioner: Ted CruzWitness: Steve Satterfield
Narrative: Profits over SafetyHarm: Suicide & self-injury
Q. · Question
Ted Cruz
A. · Response
Steve Satterfield
QuestionCruz asks whether increased teen suicide is an "acceptable business risk" for Meta, whether Meta has quantified additional teen deaths attributable to its products, and what Satterfield would say to a parent who lost a teenage daughter.
ResponseSatterfield says increased teen suicide is not an acceptable business risk, declines to address whether deaths have been quantified (citing his role again), and offers only a general expression of personal concern as a parent.