HILL TECH & CYBER BRIEFING: Facebook Faces Heat on Kids’ Safety

Facebook heads back to Capitol Hill today to face what’s expected to be one of it’s toughest hearings to date about recent reporting on Instagram’s negative impacts on children’s mental health.

The hearing will be led by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security.

The lawmakers had unsuccessfully pressed Facebook to share its research on the effects of its products on youth prior to a series of articles from the Wall Street Journal that described how Facebook knew ...