During a session of the Joint Committee on the Online Safety Bill, Dean asked questions to Facebook's Global Head of Safety, Antigone Davis, about the work that Facebook is doing to try to protect its users from harmful content.
Dean started by asking Antigone about child safety and whether Facebook creates content that is designed to be addictive. Antigone argued that Facebook did not do this and that they "have taken measures to reduce the amount of time that people spend on their platform by around 15 million hours a day". She said that she did not believe that Facebook had done research on the impact of Facebook usage on the dopamine levels of people's brains but that they do "work with academics to understand how their platform may affect somebody's experience... in order to provide the best and most positive experience..."
Following these questions, Dean asked about the important issue of accountability in Facebook and whether Facebook "has become too big for its own good and the good of its users... making this Bill essential to make sure accountability is held?" Antigone responded by saying that "Facebook has put in place numerous things to provide ways to hold themselves to account and that they welcome this regulation... to hold us to account..."
Please watch the video at the top of this post to see the full version of Dean's questions to Antigone Davis.
