{"id":1103583,"date":"2021-12-09T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103583"},"modified":"2021-12-09T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:58:45","slug":"facebook-still-plans-to-develop-instagram-for-kids-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-still-plans-to-develop-instagram-for-kids-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Still Plans to Develop &#039;Instagram for Kids&#039; in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-still-plans-to-develop-instagram-for-kids-in-the-future%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103583&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Despite serious political pressure and damaging internal leaks showing the toxic impact of&nbsp; Instagram on teens\u2019 meant health, Facebook isn\u2019t backing down on its desire to develop an \u201cInstagram for Kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/12\/8\/22825246\/instagram-for-kids-adam-mosseri-congress-senate-facebook-meta-zuckerberg\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that during a Senate hearing this week, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri revealed that the company is still considering developing an \u201cInstagram for Kids\u201d app despite recent reports on the platform\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/01\/report-instagram-continues-to-promote-eating-disorders-and-diet-pills-to-teens\/\">negative effect on teens\u2019 mental health<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/09\/27\/facebook-stops-development-of-instagram-for-kids\/\">previous promises to halt the development of such an app.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18485858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg-discusses-Instagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18485858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg-discusses-Instagram.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg discusses Instagram\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg discusses Instagram (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15994714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Ted-Cruz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15994714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Ted-Cruz-1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questions former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on June 03, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17023088\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/marsha-blackburn-oct-2020-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17023088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/marsha-blackburn-oct-2020-getty.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>During te hearing,&nbsp;Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asked Mosseri if he would commit to permanently ending the development of Instagram for Kids, to which Mosseri responded: :What I can commit to you today is that no child between the ages of 10 to 12 \u2014 should we ever manage to build Instagram for 10- to 12-year-olds \u2014 will have access to that without explicit parental consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mosseri\u2019s answer shows that Facebook may still build an app for kids, it will simply require some form of parental consent for children to access it.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal further asked Mosseri if he supported legislation that would outlaw social media apps that are designed to be addictive, Mosseri responded:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>Senator, respectfully, I don\u2019t believe the research suggests that our products are addictive. Research actually shows that on 11 of 12 difficult issues that teens face, teens who are struggling said that Instagram helps more than harms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/09\/14\/wsj-facebooks-internal-documents-show-company-knows-instagram-is-terrible-for-teen-girls\/\">a report&nbsp;titled \u201cFacebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>WSJ<\/em>&nbsp;claimed that Facebook was aware that Instagram can have a negative effect on the body image of young women.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>WSJ&nbsp;<\/em>wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p>\u201cThirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,\u201d the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook\u2019s internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. \u201cComparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,\u201d said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,\u201d said another slide. \u201cThis reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recent <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/files\/k97a60yb\/production\/579f4d97875580eb08d4c28fe1d123f79d224226.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">research by the activist group SumOfUs<\/a>&nbsp;showed that Instagram still displays posts promoting eating disorders, diet pills, and skin whitening products to teenagers. Instagram has banned some hashtags relating to eating disorders but researchers found that users can get around these restrictions by using creative hashtags that have racked up over tens of millions of posts.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) further pressed Mosseri about the effect of Instagram on teens\u2019 mental health, while Mosseri argued that Instagram actually improved the lives of teens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re going to have a conversation about the research, I think we need to be clear about what it actually says. It actually showed that one out of three girls who suffer from body image issues find that Instagram makes things worse, and that came from a slide with 23 other statistics where more teens found that Instagram makes things better,\u201d said Mosseri.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mosseri later claimed that social media platforms like Instagram have&nbsp;\u201chelped important movements like body positivity to flourish. \u2026 It has helped diversify the definitions of beauty, and that\u2019s something that we think is incredibly important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was not convinced by Mosseri\u2019s arguments, stating:&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019m a mom; I\u2019m a grandma. \u2026 I have a 12- and 13-year-old grandson. I\u2019m talking to parents all the time, and we know that [in] the vast number of stories that we are hearing, so many of the parents mentioned the adverse impact\u201d of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn said that Mosseri\u2019s claims that Instagram was more beneficial to teens than harmful was \u201castounding\u201d and \u201creally sounded removed from the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/12\/8\/22825246\/instagram-for-kids-adam-mosseri-congress-senate-facebook-meta-zuckerberg\">Recode here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite serious political pressure and damaging internal leaks showing the toxic impact of\u00a0 Instagram on teens\u2019 meant health, Facebook isn\u2019t backing down on its desire to develop an \u201cInstagram for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}