One of his motivations for first tackling the issue inside the company was seeing how his own teenage daughter was treated on Instagram. He said she received unwanted sexual advances and photos of male genitals as well as misogynistic insults. Later, she told her father that reporting these abuses through Instagram’s established processes was either ineffective or not possible.
Béjar said that he started conducting surveys of teen’s experiences on Instagram. He found that 51% of users said “yes” to having had bad or harmful experiences within the previous seven days. Of those users, the content was taken down only 0.02% of the time, according to his testimony...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/19/meta-safety-trial-whistleblower-testimony
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