Senator Richard Blumenthal is again calling on Mark Zuckerberg to swear about Facebook’s exploration 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 kiddies,” the Connecticut legislator wrote in a letter addressed to Zuckerberg.
Blumenthal is the president 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 exploration that shows Instagram can have a negative impact on some teens’ internal health. The company has formerly “ broke” work on a forthcoming Instagram Kiddies app, but lawgivers 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 evidence to me regarding attempts to internally conceal its exploration.” He also said that Facebook “ has continued to demean poignant and independent investigative reporting” and “ de-emphasized its own exploration.”
