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Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers

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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.