WASHINGTON: Instagram bosses face Wednesday roast from members of the US parliament after a co-adjacent press report based on leaked internal research showing a photo sharing application can endanger its young users.
Adam Mosseri’s testimony came as a social media network under Facebook meta, the battle of the crisis triggered by company documents, and who had turned on the increase in US regulation of the year.
The documents leaked with reporters, MPs and regulators by Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen including research from 2019 found Instagram made the body’s image problem worse for one of the three teenage girls.
Another report, from 2020, revealed that 32% of teenage girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram worsened it.
Facebook has pushed back fiercely against the Wall Street Journal report string based on findings, and the next series for the US media consortium, on the grounds of research miscaracterised.
Senator Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn lead hearing, the latest in the series of investigating how social media can make teenagers feel worse about themselves.
“My conversation with parents has really moved me to fight for …
Reformation and answer request that the whole nation was looking for,” Blumenthal said Tuesday.
Facebook has bounced back from other scandals such as involving Cambridge Analytica, an English consulting company that uses millions of Facebook personal data to target political advertisements.
In that case, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg went to Washington to apologize and the company approved a $ 5 million completion with a US regulator.
However, the leading social media network faces at least one investigation driven by the latest crisis: US state consortium announces in November Probe Meta Engineering to attract young users and the potential generated.
On Wednesday night, Subcommittee Senate Trade, Instagram announced new protection for young users such as suggesting a break if they spend a lot of time on the platform.
The announcement took the acceptance of alert from parliamentarians, which questioned whether it was an effort to budget before the trial.
Stephen Balkam, Founder and CEO of Advocacy Group Family Online Institute, said the pre-heard announcement was the Washington tradition but noted they would not make the application problems missing.
“Instagram is safer than that.
I think Instagram is less toxic for teenagers than that.
But it will never be perfect, it will never be completely safe.
But then it’s true of all social media,” he told AFP.
Instagram boss faces members of the US parliament on charges against the impact on children
