{"id":13065,"date":"2024-01-24T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/meta-has-not-done-enough-to-safeguard-children-whistleblower-says\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:37:43","slug":"meta-has-not-done-enough-to-safeguard-children-whistleblower-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/meta-has-not-done-enough-to-safeguard-children-whistleblower-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta has not done enough to safeguard children, whistleblower says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: former senior engineer says social media company has had the tools to do more since Molly Russell\u2019s death<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has not done enough to safeguard children after Molly Russell\u2019s death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/07\/meta-facebook-employee-congress-testimony-instagram-child-harm-social-media\">according to a whistleblower<\/a> who said the social media company already has the infrastructure in place to shield teenagers from harmful content.<\/p>\n<p>Arturo B\u00e9jar, a former senior engineer and consultant at the Instagram and Facebook owner, said if the company had learned its lessons from Molly\u2019s death and subsequent inquest it would have created a safer experience for young users. According to research conducted by B\u00e9jar on Instagram users, 8.4% of 13- to 15-year-olds had seen someone harm themselves or threaten to harm themselves in the past week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/24\/meta-has-not-done-enough-to-safeguard-children-whistleblower-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/74bb2e19af48b059f2ef86c6cb7cffd3bde9f8e4\/0_262_3600_2161\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3212529852bb1f7461d96ed364848fb2\" title=\"Meta has not done enough to safeguard children, whistleblower says\" \/>Exclusive: former senior engineer says social media company has had the tools to do more since Molly Russell\u2019s death<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has not done enough to safeguard children after Molly Russell\u2019s death, according to a whistleblower who said the social media company already has the infrastructure in place to shield teenagers from harmful content.<br \/>\nArturo B\u00e9jar, a former senior engineer and consultant at the Instagram and Facebook owner, said if the company had learned its lessons from Molly\u2019s death and subsequent inquest it would have created a safer experience for young users. According to research conducted by B\u00e9jar on Instagram users, 8.4% of 13- to 15-year-olds had seen someone harm themselves or threaten to harm themselves in the past week. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: former senior engineer says social media company has had the tools to do more since Molly Russell\u2019s death Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has not done enough to safeguard children after Molly Russell\u2019s death, according to a whistleblower who said the social media company already has the infrastructure in place to shield teenagers from harmful content. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/meta-has-not-done-enough-to-safeguard-children-whistleblower-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta has not done enough to safeguard children, whistleblower says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13066,"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\/13065"}],"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=13065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}