Facebook to highlight positive Instagram impact on teens in Senate hearing -testimony By Reuters

By David Shepardson

(Reuters) – Fb Inc (NASDAQ:) plans to focus on inside analysis that reveals teenage ladies felt higher after utilizing its Instagram app throughout a Senate listening to to be held on Thursday, in line with the corporate’s ready testimony seen by Reuters.

The social media big has been below hearth for the previous week after the Wall Road Journal reported inside paperwork confirmed Fb was conscious that Instagram harmed the psychological well being of younger customers.

Antigone Davis, world head of security at Fb, will element the corporate’s beforehand introduced efforts to raised defend youngsters and teenagers on-line, together with defaulting customers below the age of 16 to personal accounts once they be a part of Instagram, in line with the testimony.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the listening to titled “Defending Youngsters On-line” following the Journal’s reporting.

Inner Fb analysis reveals that amongst teenage ladies who stated they’d just lately felt disappointment, 57% stated Instagram made issues higher, Davis’ ready remarks present.

Amongst teenage ladies who felt loneliness, 51% stated Instagram had a optimistic influence, in line with the testimony.

On Tuesday, a Fb whistleblower will testify in regards to the firm and the way it handles kids’s security on-line at a Senate listening to that includes Blumenthal and Senator Marsha Blackburn. The senators didn’t give any details about the whistleblower.