House Republicans demand internal research from Snap, TikTok and YouTube on teen mental health

, even while Facebook represented the more positive effects of its platform to the public.

The questions in Monday's letters show lawmakers' interest in protecting kids online is not limited to Facebook. Members of Congress are now eager to understand what a whole host of platforms know about their products' impact on kids and teens. Lawmakers are weighing a range of new policies that could limit platform use to older teens and mandate companies install additional protections for young users.

The letters to Snap, TikTok and YouTube ask for research each company has conducted on the impact of their platforms on the mental health of users of various age groups, such as those under 13, 13-18 years of age, and 18 and older. They also ask for internal communications about those impacts and for information about outside research that was contracted.

The lawmakers also asked TikTok, whose parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, if it had ever been directed by the Chinese government to censor content on its platform or if it preemptively took down content for fear of "objections" from the government. They also asked if Chinese officials had sought U.S. user data and whether TikTok complied with such requests, if so.

TikTok has previously maintained that its U.S. user data is out of reach of the Chinese government because its servers with that information are not based in China.

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