Alarming testimony before the US Commerce, Science and Transportation Senate subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security yesterday from former Facebook data scientist, Frances Haugen.

The Facebook whistleblower indicated that the company knew how dangerous Instagram was for the mental health of young women.

She says she can only comment on the documents she’s seen, and did not personally work on teens or child safety. In the documents that she read, “Facebook articulates the idea that parents today are not aware of how dangerous Instagram is.” She says because parents do not live through those experiences, they cannot coach their children on basic safety. “At a minimum Facebook should have to disclose what it knows in that context” she told the US Senate subcommittee.

Haugen also indicated that the company’s products help to stoke division and weaken democracy.

“Facebook has solutions today, that are not content based,” says Haugen who advocates for non-content based solutions “because those solutions will also then protect the most vulnerable people in the world.” She says investing in non-content based ways to slow the platform down not only protects freedom of speech, but it also protects people’s lives.