Ms Frances Haugen:

To be clear, I support the formation of some type of class mechanism such as, for example, parents of teenagers. Teenagers facing eating disorders and people who have experienced other types of mental health harms from social media are the victims of violence facilitated by social media. I support the formation of a class mechanism because I believe there needs to be a way for individuals affected by social media to come forward. At the same time, I do not support an individual mechanism because I worry that any regulator that Ireland might establish would be swamped by complaints. There needs to be a way for people to bring forward their grievances but it needs to be in a way that scales so as not to overwhelm the system.