Mr Adam Mosseri argued the service could help struggling young people, despite documents leaked by a company insider raising worries of harms, including a 2019 study saying Instagram made one in three teenage girls feel worse when they were unhappy with their bodies.
Mr Mosseri proposed a social media industry body that would set best practices to help keep young people safe online, but got a frosty reception. "This is a case of too little, too late because now there is bipartisan momentum both here and in the House to tackle these problems we are seeing with Big Tech," said Senator Marsha Blackburn, referring to Instagram's safeguards.Facebook has bounced back from other scandals like the one involving Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting firm that used the personal data of millions of Facebook users to target political ads.
Facing pressure, the company announced in September a"pause" in developing a version of Instagram for kids under 13 as criticism built over the platform's impact on young people's mental health.
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