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51% of Instagram users say 'yes' to having had a bad or harmful experience in the last 7 days. Out of those 1% of report and of those 2% have the content taken down (i.e. 0.02%). …
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Accuses Instagram of failing to remove content enabling the sale of minors, calling it a top venue for sex trafficking. Says Meta's detection tools are industry-leading though imperfect, and denies being a trafficking site.
Cites unredacted court documents on plastic-surgery-style face filters harming youth mental health and challenges his commitment to protecting girls. …
Opening statement (not in reply to a question). Says existing science hasn't shown a causal link between social media use and worse youth mental health outcomes.
Says it's important to weigh the science, and that the bulk of evidence doesn't support a proven mental-health/social-media link.
Accuses him of testifying there's no link while internally knowing the product harms teens, yet continuing unchanged.
Argues the correlation between platform use and teen risk is well known, and asks directly if the platform is safe for kids.
Says the goal is making products more useful, not giving teams targets to increase time spent.
Cites internal emails and a WSJ report on Meta valuing 'tween' users, contradicting a prior denial, and asks him to explain and address opposition to child-safety legislation. …
Describes a named Congressman's son who died by suicide after being financially sextorted via Instagram by a Nigeria-based ring, and asks Zuckerberg what he'd say to the family, and whether the family should be able to sue Meta. …
Follow-up specifically pressing Zuckerberg on the STOP CSAM Act and SHIELD Act after his email-related answer. …
Presses specifically for absolute counts (not prevalence percentages) of self-harm/suicide content and its views — asked identically to all 5 witnesses. …
Notes the tension between end-to-end encryption's privacy benefits and its use for grooming/CSAM sharing, and asks whether Meta allows minors to use encrypted messaging (WhatsApp) and at what minimum age. …
Praises Instagram's new restrictions on eating-disorder/suicide/self-harm content for all teens, but asks why the sexually-explicit-content restriction only covers ages 13–15, not 16–17. …
Asks whether parents can request topic-specific content restrictions for their children on Meta's platforms. Zuckerberg confirms Meta does not currently offer topic-based parental content controls, only time-limit controls and general monitoring.
Cites a WSJ investigation finding Instagram's own recommendation algorithm actively surfaced CSAM-selling accounts via graphic hashtags, and that Instagram's warning screen for such searches offered a "see results anyway" option — asks how that choice could ever have been made. …
Presses for hard numbers (warning-screen display count, "see results anyway" click count) and asks what concrete follow-up action — verification, reporting — Instagram took when users clicked through the CSAM warning. …
Walks Zuckerberg through confirming a chain of facts culminating in a specific allegation: that he personally rejected Nick Clegg's internal request for 45-84 additional safety/well-being engineers (an estimated $50M/quarter cost against $9.2B in quarterly earnings) shortly before Antigone Davis publicly testified that Meta was "investing heavily" in kids' safety. …
Asks whether Zuckerberg believes he has a constitutional right to lie to Congress, then cites a specific court filing (twice made, December and January) in a parents' lawsuit where Meta's lawyers allegedly argued exactly that, and asks him to disavow it. …
Same KOSA support question, directed at Zuckerberg, repeated three times after non-answers. …
Meta & Children's Online Safety