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In a congressional hearing into Facebook and Instagram’s impact on youth mental health Thursday, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) was questioning Facebook’s global head of safety Antigone Davis when he revealed just how little he knows about big tech and the platforms Facebook created, including Instagram.
“Will you commit to ending Finsta?” Blumenthal asks Davis, referring to the term given to secondary Instagram accounts used by people who wish to have a public profile and a more private profile to share content with a smaller circle of people.
“Senator, again, let me explain, we don’t actually do Finsta,” Davis responded. “What Finsta refers to is young people setting up accounts where they may want to have more privacy. You refer to it as a privacy from their parents but what, in my interaction with teens, what I’ve found is that they sometimes like to have an account where […]
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