Meta & Children's Online SafetyProtecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Asks whether Facebook or Instagram collects personally identifiable data on children under 13 without parental consent.
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Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Says she isn't familiar with the cited research, but notes minors can only be targeted by age, gender, or location, and Messenger Kids under-13 has no ads.
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Presses on exactly which claims -- addictive design or mental-health harm -- he disagrees with. Disagrees the product is addictive, citing the time-spent dashboard, reminders, and 'take a break' feature as tools addressing parental concerns.
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Asks when Meta's safety head learned that internal research found Instagram worsens body image for one in three teen girls, and what she did about it. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Asks why a test account set up as a 13-year-old immediately received eating-disorder and self-harm content, and what AI drove that. Denies directing users to eating-disorder content, calls it a policy violation, and cites AI used to find and remove it.
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Cites three undisclosed internal Facebook studies on teen body image/social comparison harms; presses Davis to commit to full disclosure of all research. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Blumenthal characterizes "Finstas" (teens' secret second accounts) as a deliberate Facebook growth strategy that helps hide activity from parents and boosts monetizable engagement metrics. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Citing an internal report, Blackburn says Facebook knew about domestic-servitude/trafficking content and only acted once Apple threatened to pull the app from the App Store; asks whether young girls on the platform are exposed to it. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Citing a WSJ-reported internal document about future product targeting ("tweens... as young as eight"), Blackburn asks point-blank whether Facebook conducts market research on tweens, and accuses Facebook of COPPA-violating data collection on children. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Klobuchar presses on who specifically will decide whether to "unpause" the paused Instagram-for-kids-under-13 project, and by what criteria. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Klobuchar asks whether Facebook's reported $51/quarter ad-revenue-per-user figure includes Instagram, and specifically revenue from users under 18. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Citing internal stats (32% of teen girls / 6% of teen users linking Instagram to suicidal ideation), Markey demands a yes/no commitment that Facebook won't launch under-12 platforms with popularity-quantifying features (likes, follower counts). …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Markey seeks a yes/no commitment against (1) launching kids' platforms with influencer/commercial content children can't recognize as ads, and (2) algorithms that funnel teens toward harmful content like diet-pill ads and COVID misinformation. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Markey asks Davis to commit, yes/no, to supporting his newly reintroduced KIDS Act (banning follower counts/autoplay/push alerts for kids, limiting influencer ads, prohibiting harmful-content amplification); accuses Facebook of "delay and obfuscation" when she won't. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Citing the 2014 "emotional contagion" study and recent leaks showing similar effects on teen Instagram users, Thune asks what Facebook will do to counter it. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Luján presses, repeatedly, for a straight yes/no on whether Facebook will release the underlying dataset (minus PII) behind its internal teen body-image research. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Luján asks, yes/no, whether Facebook tests algorithm changes' impact before rollout, and specifically whether it tests changes for their effect on user growth/revenue. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Luján asks, yes/no, whether Facebook tests platform changes for their effect on users' propensity toward violent/hateful language, and separately toward self-harm ideation. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Blumenthal presses on who specifically decides whether Facebook's internal research gets made public, directly asking if it's Zuckerberg. …
Protecting Kids Online: Facebook Instagram and Mental Health Harms
Citing Molly Russell's death and an internal April 2021 document quoting a Facebook engineer saying "no one has decided to dial into eating disorders," Blumenthal says Facebook knowingly let its recommendation system push users toward eating-disorder/self-harm content. …