Instagram is pressing pause on plans to develop a version of its service for kids under 13 after facing pressure from lawmakers to back down on the effort and new questions about the impact the photo-sharing service has on teen girls.
FTC would also limit how companies can use notifications to nudge children to stay online. The rule affects companies which collect personal information about users under age 13.
Attorneys general concerned for safety and well-being of children OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a nationwide investigation into TikTok for promoting its social media platform to children and young adults while its use is associated with physical and mental health harms to youth. Attorneys general nationwide are examining whether the company is
social media is driving the rise in suicides. wait. why do you think the surgeon general of the united states just issued a 53-page report on mental health and teen suicides said that we should limit social media to help get out of this crisis? senator, from what i ve read of the surgeon general s report so far it s about a number of different issues. not just suicides. to make a connection between one problem he talks about one of the recommendations he makes i think is a bit of a lead. what you just saw repeated throughout the hearing where you had lawmakers trying to pin down mosseri trying to get him to acknowledge or at least concede the possibility that social media could be contributing to mental health harms, and mosseri, steadfastly, trying to avoid acknowledging that that could even be an option or a potential outcome due some of these technologies, victor and
it could have major policy consequences. president of the committee to unleash prosperity and dr. peter mccullough, epidemiologist based in dallas. phil, why is the risk to kids being inflated? what point does this serve? i think about two things. one, it keeps the fear narrative and the control from the government alive a little bit longer. two, which is much more important at this point, it justifies the otherwise indefensible bad decisions that are politicians at a public health officials have made over the last 1.5, two years. rather than acknowledge error, they are trying to overstate the rest of the dangers to children to justify the massive disruptions and the educational harms, mental health harms come everything else that they ve proposed this point. the director of the cdc should know that the verified death certificate-based count from the national center for health, the