Sen. Blumenthal says Zuckerberg needs to testify about Instagram and kids

Senator Richard Blumenthal is again calling on Mark Zuckerberg to swear about Facebook’s disquisition into Instagram and child safety. “ It’s critical and necessary for you orMr. Adam Mosseri to swear to set the record straight and give members of Congress and parents with a plan on how you ’re going to cover our youths,” the Connecticut solon wrote in a letter addressed to Zuckerberg Blumenthal is the chairman of the Senate council on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security that’s been holding sounds on social media and child safety in recent weeks. Before this month, Blumenthal said that a series of whistleblower exposures about Facebook was the company’s “ big tobacco moment Since also, pressure has mounted on Facebook to address internal disquisition that shows Instagram can have a negative impact on some teens’ internal health. The company has formerly “ broke” work on a forthcoming Instagram Youths app, but lawmakers have said the company should end the design altogether.

In his letter, Blumenthal said that Facebook’s head of safety, Antigone Davis, who witnessed at a former hail, “ appears to have handed false or inaccurate substantiation to me regarding attempts to internally conceal its disquisition.” He also said that Facebook “ has continued to demean poignant and independent investigative reporting” and “ downplayed its own disquisition.”

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