{"id":12991,"date":"2024-01-18T11:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/fundamentally-against-their-safety-the-social-media-insiders-fearing-for-their-kids\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T11:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:37:26","slug":"fundamentally-against-their-safety-the-social-media-insiders-fearing-for-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/fundamentally-against-their-safety-the-social-media-insiders-fearing-for-their-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fundamentally against their safety\u2019: the social media insiders fearing for their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents working for tech companies have a first-hand look at how the industry works \u2013 and the threats it poses to child safety<\/p>\n<p>Arturo Bejar would not have let his daughter use Instagram at the age of 14 if he\u2019d known then what he knows now.<\/p>\n<p>Bejar left Facebook in 2015, where he spent six years making it easier for users to report when they had problems on the platform. But it wasn\u2019t until his departure that he witnessed what he described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2023-11-07_-_testimony_-_bejar.pdf\">recent congressional testimony<\/a> as the \u201ctrue level of harm\u201d the products his former employer built are inflicting on children and teens \u2013 his own included.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/18\/tech-workers-kids-social-media-screen-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0556e8d0a308c3d0115b7f681e961d50bcb7f32f\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e160123faf14d2ce3b6ef7dba189aea\" title=\"\u2018Fundamentally against their safety\u2019: the social media insiders fearing for their kids\" \/>Parents working for tech companies have a first-hand look at how the industry works \u2013 and the threats it poses to child safety<br \/>\nArturo Bejar would not have let his daughter use Instagram at the age of 14 if he\u2019d known then what he knows now.<br \/>\nBejar left Facebook in 2015, where he spent six years making it easier for users to report when they had problems on the platform. But it wasn\u2019t until his departure that he witnessed what he described in recent congressional testimony as the \u201ctrue level of harm\u201d the products his former employer built are inflicting on children and teens \u2013 his own included. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents working for tech companies have a first-hand look at how the industry works \u2013 and the threats it poses to child safety Arturo Bejar would not have let his daughter use Instagram at the age of 14 if he\u2019d known then what he knows now. Bejar left Facebook in 2015, where he spent six &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/fundamentally-against-their-safety-the-social-media-insiders-fearing-for-their-kids\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Fundamentally against their safety\u2019: the social media insiders fearing for their kids<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12992,"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\/12991"}],"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=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}