A recent Wall Street Journal article claimed Facebook executives discovered Instagram was harmful to teenage girls, especially their mental health, but has done little to address the problem. In response, the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security held a hearing last week to explore these allegations. But any pretense of a serious examination of social media’s impact on youth quickly devolved into political grandstanding and gamesmanship that failed to address any of the important questions on the table and will only make it harder for the private sector to do so in the future.
Congressional Reaction to Facebook’s Internal Research Has Created a Catch-22 for Social Media Companies (Daniel Castro, ITIF)
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