beckerman. ms. miller. i hope you're with us. please proceed. >> sorry. i think i am having a bit of technical difficulty. can you hear me okay? >> we can hear you, and now we can see you. >> wonderful. thank you. chairman blumenthal, and distinguish members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is leslie miller, and i'm the vice president of public policy at youtube. as young people spend more time online, and given their changing needs as they grow up, it is important to age-appropriate access information. -- crucial to put in place protections that allow them age-appropriate access to information. we do this by investing in partnership, technologies, and policies that create safer environments. that allow children to express their imagination and curiosity and empower families to create the right experiences for children. our internal teams include experts who come from child development, child psychology, and children's media backgrounds. they

beckerman? >> thank you for the question. we believe research should be done in a transparent way. we partner with external stakeholders and experts to get their feedback. we think that something everyone can work on. we have supported passage of the camera act, which would have additional funding to nih, we'd love to have that done in an external and transparent way. >> ms. miller? >> we work with experts to leverage their insights and research to make sure that their decisions are up to date, based on their insights. >> i asked whether the research shows addictive like impacts. you've all indicated that you've done that research and ms. stout indicated that her company will make it available. i'm assuming mr. beckerman, your company will, as well? you are nodding. and mrs. miller? >> yes, senator, we have published some research and we would make additional available. >> let me ask now about the black box algorithms. as you know, these algorithms exist, they function to drive, sometimes toxic

beckerman. >> senator, we have to break videos and auto play tools. >> would you support that legislation passing that which would ban auto play? >> we'd be happy to look at it and talk to you about it. >> you don't do it. >> again, i think it's important to look at age appropriate features for teens as something we build into tiktok proactively. but, again, as we look at legislation i do think a first step is something around age verification across apps. >> again, this is the historic problem. ms. stout, would you support it? >> senator markey, i don't believe we have auto play on snap chat, so i would defer and say that's something we need to look at more closely. and i'm not familiar with that piece of the proposal in your legislation. >> okay, great. we have a lot of work to do, and we have to telescope the time frame, i think, mr. chairman. >> telescoping the time frame. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. thanks, senator markey. thanks for all your good work. senator baldwin. or act

beckerman? >> thank you, senator. this is one of the most important topics for all of us, particularly as parents, as tech companies and as congress to address. we all have a responsibility to protect our teenagers. none of us can do that alone. it can't just be on the parents. it can't just be on a senate can't just be on congress. we have to come together to solve issues. it's a responsibility that we had tiktok take very seriously and have taken tangible actions to do and will continue to do so. i am focused today on legislation. we support stronger privacy roles. we've done much of that proactively on our own. we support congress acting on age-appropriate design, age appropriate content. this is what we have done proactively and we would like to see congress act. thank you. thank you. >> ms. miller? >> senator, thank you for inviting me to participate. i will close by reiterating what i said at the top in my statement. there is no more important issue than the safety of kids online and i am personally committed. o