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you are. Richard Blumenthal Thursday said her pretended to be a teenage girl on Instagram to find out about the office Facebook– potential harm to children of the owned product.

Mr. Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, explained her the decision to pretend to be an online girl during contention Senate hearing with Facebook Executive over company allegations of harming children.

“My office did its own research, we created an Instagram account that identified as a 13-year-old girl, and followed several easily found accounts related to extreme dieting and eating disorders,” she said. Blumenthal said. “Within a day, their recommendations were filled with accounts that only promoted self-harm and eating disorders. This is the perfect storm that Instagram is promoting and creating.”

as Mr. Blumenthal Discussing the faux teenage girl’s plight, an employee hung up posters showing redacted Instagram suggestions for Mr. Blumenthal‘ young alter-ego to follow online.

But FacebookAntigone Davis, head of global security for Mr. Blumenthal he he she remembered that she was a real young girl and him The company’s internal research misidentified its findings.

“As an experienced mother with a teenage daughter, who is also a teenage girl, and has taught middle school and teenage girls, I want to talk about this specifically,” said Ms. Davis. Blumenthal. “I saw firsthand the disturbing intersection between the pressure to be perfect, body image, and finding your identity at that age. And I think what’s missing from this report is that we actually found with this research that more and more teenage girls are finding Instagram really helpful. Teenage girls suffering from these problems find Instagram [more] It is more beneficial than not.”

Mr. Blumenthal and her team is not the only researcher tracking access to data. Facebook pretending to be a fake online. During a House hearing on disinformation earlier this week, Northeastern University professor Alan Mislove said his team spent thousands of dollars buying ads. Facebook to examine the company’s performance metrics.

“Actually, we sometimes use multiple accounts, some of which we haven’t disclosed. Facebook just to be sure… we see consistent behavior in these accounts,” said Mr Mislove.

Thursday Senate hearing, Mr. Blumenthal and his colleagues, including Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, Facebookactions. Mr. Blumenthal and Ms. Blackburn scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to hear one person’s testimony. Facebook “whistleblower” without identifying the person or relationship to the company.

Mr. Blumenthal said on Thursday the person was approaching her earlier this month to provide information about the office Facebook and Instagram. Next week’s hearing is expected to provide more information on the allegations related to the internal investigations. FacebookIt shows that Instagram is “toxic to teenage girls,” as The Wall Street Journal put it.

Facebook contested the critics’ comments on his research. discussion about Facebook‘s internal research boiled down on Thursday Senate Miss Davis, Facebook executive and Mr. Blumenthal discussed its importance.

“I know we have published several reports and we are looking for ways to further publish this research,” Ms Davis said. “I want to be clear that this research isn’t a bombshell, it’s not causal research, it’s actually just directional research.”

“Well, I beg you to disagree, Miss Davis,” said Mr. Blumenthal, interrupt him. “This research is the bomb. It is powerful, gripping and gripping evidence. Facebook He knows the harmful effects of the site on children and knows that he is hiding these facts and findings.”