Democratic Senator Ed Markey on Monday asked for answers from Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg after new research suggested the social media company failed to prevent display of harmful advertisements to teen Facebook users.
Markey cited comments by a Facebook executive before Congress last week that the site does not allow weight-loss ads to be shown to people under the age of 18 already, or any tobacco ads.
Markey cited research conducted by the Campaign for Accountability’s Tech Transparency Project, that as recently as last month Facebook allowed advertisers to target teen users as young as 13 with "inappropriate and dangerous content, including advertisements promoting 'pill abuse, alcoholic beverages, anorexia, smoking, dating services, and gambling.'"
On Tuesday, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen will testify at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing about Facebook and Instagram’s impacts on young users. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, chair of the subcommittee holding the hearing, said the testimony is "critical to understanding what Facebook knew about its platforms' toxic effects on young users, when they knew it, and what they did about it."
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