in other news instagram Chief Executive Adam Monastery is due
to testify before Congress for the very first time.
This follows months of document lee showing meta platforms like
instagram internally knew of its negative impact on some younger
users. A spokesperson for Connecticut, senator Richard Blumenthal
confirming the Senate's commerce subcommittee will hear from this area
this week. Blumenthal said in a statement quote after
bombshell reports about instagram's toxic impacts. We want to
hear straight from the company's leadership, why it uses
powerful algorithms that push poisonous content to Children, driving
them down rabbit holes to dark places and what it
will do to make its platform safer. Among the
revelations from the internal documents, this is something baker
and I talk about a lot on this show.
Our findings from instagram's own research Emuting 13% of British
teenagers use teenagers and 6% of teens in the US
who had suicidal thoughts. Trace those thoughts back to
Instagram. The company has said its own research findings
cannot be applied to their entire user base which of
course is in the billions we mentioned what Blumenthal said
. Of course he's he's vowed to approve new online
child safety but josh holly republican, he's actually put
out a bill that would allow parents to sue tech
companies that are proven to have caused bodily harm or
mental injuries to Children. So this is one thing
that both sides seem to agree on