Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 91

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 91
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prepared at reasonable expense, excluding proprietary information) that includes quantitative metrics appropriate to assessing whether and how Alphabet/YouTube has improved its performance globally regarding child safety impacts and actual harm reduction to children on its platforms.

| (1) | https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2022/social-media-children-teens |

Alphabet2025 Proxy Statement 94

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| (2) | https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/media/surgeon-general-social-media-apps-warning-label/index.html                                                                |
| (3) | https://www.motleyrice.com/social-media-lawsuits/youtube                                                                                                       |
| (4) | https://www.motleyrice.com/social-media-lawsuits/youtube                                                                                                       |
| (5) | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/child-abuse-apple-google-apps.html                                                                                       |
| (6) | https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/harvard-study-reveals-underage-users-contribute-11b-to-social-media-platforms-including-youtube-and-instagram/ar-AA1m8pk5 |
| (7) | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/youtube-may-face-billions-in-fines-if-ftc-confirms-child-privacy-violations/                                       |
| (8) | https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protecting-kids-online-bipartisan-cause-senators/story?id=97195752                                                             |
| (9) | https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/kosa-kids-online-safety-act-speech-censor-rcna12824                                                                  |

Alphabet Opposing Statement

| Our Board of Directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal because: |                                                                                                                      |
| •                                                                                  | We have strong policies and take extensive steps in our products to                                                  
 protect children.                                                                                                    |
| •                                                                                  | We have a number of voluntary disclosures that address these issues.                                                 |
| •                                                                                  | A number of recent regulatory frameworks include robust reporting                                                    
 requirements — as such, we already provide child safety-related metrics that are more substantive and informative in 
 nature than the type of report requested in this proposal.                                                           |

We have strong policies to protect children Across Google and YouTube,