{"id":833029,"date":"2021-09-30T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=833029"},"modified":"2021-09-30T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:15:34","slug":"senate-commerce-subcommittee-holds-mental-health-and-social-media-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-commerce-subcommittee-holds-mental-health-and-social-media-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Commerce Subcommittee holds mental health and social media hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-commerce-subcommittee-holds-mental-health-and-social-media-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=833029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2536350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2536350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 SEPTEMBER 30: Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) looks on as Antigone Davis, Director, Global Head of Safety, Facebook testifies virtually during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security hearing on children\u2019s online safety and mental health on Capitol Hill on September 30, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tom Brenner-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:12 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 30, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A Senate Commerce Subcommittee recently held a hearing on the harmful effects social media has on the youth. During the hearing, lawmakers questioned Facebook executives on the safety of children who use the platform, as well as Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, senators on both sides of the aisle grilled Facebook\u2019s Global Head of Safety, Antigone Davis, for allowing content regarding sex trafficking on the platform. This comes as Facebook has been under scrutiny in the wake of a report by the Wall Street Journal that alleged the social media network is aware of the harmful effects it has on young users.<\/p>\n<p>Davis attempted to counter the reports, claiming the Big Tech giant has policies against sex trafficking. Davis then revealed plans to better protect children and teens online, including automatically making accounts of users under the age of 16 private when they join Instagram.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Facebook has both a legal and a moral obligation to stop collecting and using children\u2019s data. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZbzzptDvR6\">pic.twitter.com\/ZbzzptDvR6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1443621371397951491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Ed Markey took aim at her questioning, asking what further research is necessary in order to protect adolescents on Instagram and Facebook considering the already supposedly extensive research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about 12-year-olds. We\u2019re talking about nine-year-olds. If you need to do more research on this, you should fire all the people who you\u2019ve paid to do the research up until now because this is pretty obvious and it\u2019s pretty obvious to every mother and father in our country because all recent scientific studies by child development experts found that not getting enough likes on social media significantly reduces adolescents feelings of self worth,\u201d explained Markey.<\/p>\n<p>Markey went on to say the social media giant is exploiting the peer pressure of popularity and ultimately endangering the health of young users. He also compared Facebook to Big Tobacco, saying it\u2019s pushing a product they know is harmful to the health of young people.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing comes after the social media giant recently paused plans for \u201cInstagram Kids,\u201d a platform meant for children under the age of 13.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/13-year-old-shot-at-memphis-k-8-school-suspect-in-custody\/\">13-Year-Old Shot At Memphis K-8 School, Suspect In Custody<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 SEPTEMBER 30: Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) looks on as Antigone Davis, Director, Global Head of Safety, Facebook testifies virtually during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}