Instagram chief and one-time Met Gala attendee Adam Mosseri will testify earlier than Congress about his app’s impacts on youthful customers. While Mark Zuckerberg’s been within the congressional sizzling seat a number of instances previously to debate the affect of Facebook correct, that is the primary time that Mosseri is being requested to testify in regards to the Facebook (sorry, Meta) subsidiary.

Mosseri’s December 6 testimony, first reported by the New York Times on Wednesday, is fallout from the bipartisan backlash going through Instagram proper now, virtually all of which may be traced to a trove of leaked inner paperwork from whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product supervisor.

The preliminary spherical of leaks—which included a number of inner research on Instagram’s potential results on the psychological well being of its youthful customers—has been a flashpoint for quite a few lawmakers since these leaks had been first reported within the Wall Street Journal earlier this year. Since then, lawmakers have referred to as for the corporate to cease its plans to roll out its “Instagram for Kids” app and publicly grilled Antigone Davis, Meta’s international head of security, about Instagram’s results on children.

During Davis’s testimony this previous September, she advised Congress that the corporate disputed the premise that Instagram was overtly dangerous to youthful customers, since—as others have rightfully pointed out—there are some fairly massive holes within the firm’s personal analysis. In response, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who will lead the December listening to, wrote to Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, directly, asking both him or Mosseri to right the document in entrance of Congress. Mosseri seemingly drew the brief straw, so he’s going to be the one heading to Capitol Hill subsequent month.

According to the Times, Blumenthal plans to quiz the Instagram lead on the way in which the platform’s algorithms “can send children into dangerous rabbit holes,” like these associated to disordered consuming and different types of self-harm. Previously, Blumenthal accused the corporate of mendacity to Senate officers by cherry-picking paperwork to publish that paint a rosier image of the corporate than the one being trumpeted by the corporate’s personal researchers.

“We continue to work with the committee to find a date for Adam to testify on the important steps Instagram is taking,” Meta spokeswoman Dani Lever mentioned in an electronic mail. The firm additionally directed us to a tweet put out at this time from Mosseri, the place he artfully dodges any reference to his upcoming date with Congress, however nonetheless manages to incorporate plenty of goodies about Instagram, his children, Instagram’s results on children (together with his personal), and the way in which the corporate thinks about “young people and teens.”