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Lawmakers demanding answers, holding a senate hearing later this week with one of facebook's top executives set to testify. i mentioned that sit-down exclusively with the head of instagram this morning on "today." here's our conversation. >> would we even be having this conversation had it not been for the wall street journal article and the intense pressure over the last few weeks >> i think t impossible to say i do think we've been working on this idea called instagram kids at least outside in the world. and the version that's designed for tweens it's had a lot of attention. i think it's pos...

That work has inspired lots of interesting product changes. for instance, we announced a couple years ago we wanted to lead on the issue of online pullying the research we did when we asked teens and kids why that night didn't block people harassing them on instagram is they were worried about fear of retribution, they see the kids in school and they needed to track what their -- what was being said about them. that inspired the restrict feature. over the years we're constantly doing this research and using it to inspire changes to the product. >> one of the problems, you mention 13d. that's t...

Scrapped for the time being. is that because we thought it was a good idea? >> absolutely not. as a father, the most important thing to me is the safety of my children i have to believe a world where there's a version of instagram designed for tweens, no ads, age appropriate content and a parent can choose to let their child use it and control things like who they follow and who they message is better than the alternative. >> let's talk about the kids for a second according to your own research, as i understand it, roughly a third of teenage girls who said when they felt bad about their bodies...

What happens in early adolescence to make parents suddenly seem so unrelatable? And what can be done to bridge that gap and stay connected?

What happens in early adolescence to make parents suddenly seem so unrelatable? And what can be done to bridge that gap and stay connected?