{"id":1177,"date":"2021-04-15T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/advocates-say-kids-instagram-product-would-put-young-users-at-great-risk\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:54:34","slug":"advocates-say-kids-instagram-product-would-put-young-users-at-great-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/advocates-say-kids-instagram-product-would-put-young-users-at-great-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates say kids\u2019 Instagram product would \u2018put young users at great risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negative effects of social media on children <\/p>\n<p>An international coalition of children\u2019s health advocates has called on Facebook to abandon its plans to build an Instagram product for kids, citing harm to teens from excessive use of social media.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign comes after Buzzfeed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/ryanmac\/facebook-instagram-for-children-under-13\">broke the news<\/a> in March that Facebook seeks to build an Instagram product for people under the age of 13. The company currently requires users to be 13 years or older to create an account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/15\/facebook-instagram-children-health-social-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c92585671033d66e56a2b429ccdc32214d872d08\/0_40_5845_3507\/master\/5845.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=77a2c09e73c383b030001b885b68ae19\" title=\"Advocates say kids\u2019 Instagram product would \u2018put young users at great risk\u2019\" \/>Children\u2019s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negative effects of social media on children<br \/>\nAn international coalition of children\u2019s health advocates has called on Facebook to abandon its plans to build an Instagram product for kids, citing harm to teens from excessive use of social media.<br \/>\nThe campaign comes after Buzzfeed broke the news in March that Facebook seeks to build an Instagram product for people under the age of 13. The company currently requires users to be 13 years or older to create an account. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negative effects of social media on children An international coalition of children\u2019s health advocates has called on Facebook to abandon its plans to build an Instagram product for kids, citing harm to teens from excessive use of social media. The campaign comes after &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/advocates-say-kids-instagram-product-would-put-young-users-at-great-risk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advocates say kids\u2019 Instagram product would \u2018put young users at great risk\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}