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Reads direct quotes from Meta's own internal research (via the WSJ) stating Instagram worsens body image for "1 in 3" teen girls and drives unprompted, consistent increases in anxiety/depression, contrasting this with Zuckerberg's public "no link" position. …
Cites a specific whistleblower email to Zuckerberg with statistics on 13-15-year-old girls' exposure to unwanted nudity (37%), unwanted sexual advances (24%), and self-harm content (17%) within a single week, and repeatedly demands to know who was fired over the findings. …
Asks directly whether Zuckerberg has compensated any harmed users/families present at the hearing, and then invites him to apologize to them on camera. …
Presses on personal (not just corporate) accountability and asks whether Zuckerberg would personally fund a victims' compensation fund. …
Citing former Meta engineer Arturo Béjar's prior testimony, asks whether Zuckerberg will commit to reporting child-safety metrics (e.g. how many teens experienced unwanted sexual advances) alongside quarterly SEC earnings disclosures specifically. …
Confirms that Meta's default restrictive privacy/content settings for teens are opt-out rather than mandatory, and asks why they aren't made mandatory. …
Same minor-user-count/parental-tool-adoption question, directed at Zuckerberg across all Meta apps including Horizon (VR). …
Directly asks Zuckerberg to concede that Instagram is harmful to young people. Zuckerberg disputes the premise, citing an internal 12-15-category harm survey where he says only one category (the one Hawley cited) showed net-negative results.
Same family-engagement question, directed at Zuckerberg — Butler then directly confronts him for giving a contradictory answer in a private conversation the night before. …
Repeatedly asks, in plain terms, whether Zuckerberg wants teenagers using Meta's products more or less. …
Reads direct quotes from Meta's own SEC 10-K filing (signed by Zuckerberg) stating that financial performance depends on retaining and engaging users, and that "younger users" specifically are noted as at risk of switching to substitute products. …
Asks whether Zuckerberg is familiar with, and disputes, the 2023 Surgeon General report finding that more than 3 hours/day of social media use doubles the risk of depression/anxiety in kids. …
Repeatedly presses Zuckerberg to simply agree, in plain terms, that the internet — and Meta's platforms specifically — are dangerous places for children. …
Cites an internal document referring to teen users' "lifetime value" as roughly $270 per teenager, names four specific Tennessee children/families affected, and cites the same 2021 Nick Clegg well-being-funding email chain (naming Davis, Clegg, Sandberg, Cox, Schultz, Mosseri as recipients) that Blumenthal separately raised. …
Describes a specific case where content showing teens "for sale" to older men (per WSJ reporting) was left up until a congressional staffer personally escalated it to Meta's global head of safety, and asks why such content wasn't already deemed a violation. …
Names four specific lobbying/advocacy organizations Meta funds (Net Choice, Cato Institute, Taxpayers Protection Alliance, Chamber of Progress) that have opposed child-safety legislation, and asks whether Meta will stop funding them. …
Same trust-and-safety layoffs question, directed at Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg says layoffs were company-wide, not safety-specific, and reaffirms the ~$5B/year safety investment figure already cited elsewhere.
Asks whether Zuckerberg supports a standardized same-day removal process for compromising images. Zuckerberg says a cross-industry tool called "Take It Down" already exists for this purpose and that Meta helped build it.
Asks whether Zuckerberg still supports the concept of a dedicated federal regulatory agency for tech/social media, as he reportedly indicated in prior testimony. …
Cites growing medical evidence of social media's addictive nature and asks if the product can be addictive. Denies designing the product to be addictive, says the research isn't conclusive, but calls it an area Meta studies.
Meta & Children's Online Safety