New Meta Whistleblower to Testify Before Senate on Tuesday
A new Meta whistleblower will testify about the teen “mental health crisis” on Tuesday before the Senate Privacy Subcommittee, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday. Former Instagram consultant Arturo Bejar has shared “new, irrefutable evidence that senior Facebook executives knowingly…
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turned a blind eye to horrific harms to young people on the company’s platforms,” subcommittee Chairman Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a statement with Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. Citing a new Wall Street Journal report, they said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri and Meta executives “were personally warned that millions of teens face bullying, eating disorder material, illicit drugs, and sexual exploitation, often within minutes of opening the app.” The company hid this information from Congress, ignored recommendations on how to protect users and rolled back safety tools, the senators said: “Arturo’s first-hand knowledge and damning evidence prove that Meta has put profits ahead of the safety and wellbeing of millions of teenagers, with a deadly toll on young people and families.” The company didn’t comment. Senators vowed to move legislation after the 2021 testimony of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (see 2110050062).