Drew Baglino
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Another study that Adam Masseri, the CEO of Instagram, had to explain the other day when he testified was something called Project Mist, which surveyed over a thousand teens and parents, again,
showing that the parental controls which big tech executives point to as one of the reasons why their products are safe for kids to use are essentially useless.
Well, it's significant because this evidence has never before been seen.
And he is not going to be able to say, hmm, Senator, I don't recall.
Let my office get back to your office about that and then walk away and never have to think about it again.
This is a judge and jury.
This is a court of law.
The law comes for everyone.
And if you have created a product that is unsafe...
for kids that actually has been shown to kill kids, and you've lied about it to the public and buried research when you could have been warning us to the dangers, you're going to be held accountable.
So that's why it's significant.
He's never before had to answer to that.
As far as the outcomes, I really hope that we see lasting policy change because of this.
These are individual harms cases, and so the individual outcomes might differ, but I hope that the U.S.
Congress is compelled to act after these trials conclude.