The head of a Senate panel examining social media’s negative effects on young people dismissed as a public relations tactic some safety measures announced by Facebook’s popular Instagram platform
The head of a Senate panel examining social media’s negative effects on young people has dismissed as “a public relations tactic” some safety measures announced by Facebook’s popular Instagram platform.
On Tuesday, Instagram introduced a previously announced feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the platform. The company also announced other tools, including parental controls due to come out early next year, that it says are aimed at protecting young users from harmful content.The parental oversight tools “could have been announced years ago,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal told Mosseri. The newly announced measures fall short and many of them are still being tested, he said.
Mosseri testified as Facebook, whose parent now is named Meta Platforms, has been roiled by public and political outrage over disclosures by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen. She has made the case before lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe that Facebook’s systems amplify online hate and extremism and that the company elevates profits over the safety of users.
The revelations in a report by the Wall Street Journal, based on the documents leaked by Haugen, set off a wave of recriminations from lawmakers, critics of Big Tech, child-development experts and parents.Facebook has long emphasized the strength of its efforts to contain misinformation targeted at Latinos and Spanish speakers. A whistleblower’s leaks show employees raising alarms about the problem.
But, as researchers both internal and external to Meta have documented, the reality is different. Kids under 13 often sign up for Instagram with or without their parents’ knowledge by lying about their age. And posts about suicide and self-harm still reach children and teens, sometimes with disastrous effects.
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