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hats off @wsj https://t.co/F5kJprVyBG
— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) September 27, 2021
when you read this, replace the word “Instagram” with “cigarettes” https://t.co/AAIHMCECzs pic.twitter.com/K2hT6ZNkB7
— Ben Oberkfell (@benlikestocode) September 26, 2021
I think we all knew intuitively that ‘Instagram for Kids’ was a bad idea. Credit to WSJ reporting for getting it shelved https://t.co/m8sIrQ4mZ2
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) September 27, 2021
'IG Kids' would truly need to be a more appealing product for tweens. YouTube can pull it off because the regular interface is still somewhat complex (requires typing). But regular IG is already so tween friendly. Victim of its own success in this regard.
— Samidh (@samidh) September 27, 2021
Us pausing doesn’t change the status quo. U13s are getting phones, misrepresenting their age, and downloading 13+ apps. YouTube and TikTok saw this happening and made u13 products, we were doing the same.
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
Watch @craigmelvin’s full interview with Adam @Mosseri, head of Instagram, who says that a version of Instagram for kids has been put on hold amid reports that the company had internal research showing its popular app may be harmful to the mental health of teenage girls. pic.twitter.com/1hhmNi1ThV
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 27, 2021
The problem with these blog posts is that Facebook is at such a trust deficit it can't just reference "research" it has done and ask people to believe it. It'd go a long way to release the full report (which the co already hid internally from employees).https://t.co/SjKAikOBJ5
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) September 26, 2021
Does Facebook cause high schoolers to develop clinical depression? Sure. On the other hand, we also found that teens using Facebook were "75% more likely to be interested in Bitcoin"
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) September 26, 2021
wild to hear facebook argue “Instagram mostly make teen girls feel better about themselves except in the area of body image issues”
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) September 26, 2021
From Facebook's official blog post https://t.co/6B3SOwMd6Z pic.twitter.com/TsNhElAmaU
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) September 27, 2021
Following the WSJ reporting about the mental health effects of Instagram on teenagers, Facebook paused “Instagram for Kids.”
— The Real Facebook Oversight Board (@FBoversight) September 27, 2021
They need to cancel the program, completely.https://t.co/JNFppoP7Yp
Contrary to The Wall Street Journal’s characterization, Instagram's research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues, teenage girls who said they struggled with those difficult issues also said that Instagram made them better rather than worse. https://t.co/uuu86OYqGQ
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) September 26, 2021
Direct questions about attitude change strike again!
— Matt Graham (@Matt__Graham) September 27, 2021
We can't learn *anything* from this research because it uses a remarkably untrustworthy question format. See @aecoppock and my paper on asking about attitude change: https://t.co/bhyssT6CFZ https://t.co/NHFrp96k8x
I'm encouraged to see @Facebook pausing development of Instagram for Kids and pledging to do more to empower parents. Its a shame it only took this important step after leaked internal studies showed the company knew its products were harmful to teens. https://t.co/gXoCEGacWg
— Gus Bilirakis (@RepGusBilirakis) September 27, 2021
This experience was never meant for kids. We were designing an experience for tweens (10-12yo), and it was never going to be the same as Instagram today. Parents approve tween accounts and have oversight over who they follow, who follows them, who messages them, time spent etc.
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
LOL you soulless capitalist assholes delete your whole app https://t.co/QdQyNweAIp
— ❤️ Umair (@umairh) September 27, 2021
I urged @facebook earlier this year to address my serious concern of social media’s negative impacts on children & young adults. It’s time Congress acts & pass my Safe Social Media Act, so we can understand the harmful risks of social media on our most vulnerable. https://t.co/WrTk806i1R
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) September 27, 2021
It’s remarkable how much of this press release is phrased in terms of “need” and “the right thing to do,” as though Instagram were a moral imperative and not a business plan. Everyone talks like this now. https://t.co/ktDEOEekQK
— Dan Brooks (@DangerBrooks) September 27, 2021
I would probably start by asking the phone platforms to make age something that is flowed through to all apps, triggers reasonable defaults per age and part of initial setup (and hard to change). Xbox is probably the best example.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) September 27, 2021
Should this also be interpreted as tacit acknowledgment that current mechanisms for age gating are ineffective? If so, seems like 'IG Kids' won't easily solve this problem. Don't need a boatload of research to know that Tweens will still want the grown up version. https://t.co/EDcKpsyiz2
— Samidh (@samidh) September 27, 2021
This research, like external research on these issues, found teens report having both positive and negative experiences with social media. We do research to find out how we can improve the experience for teens, and our research has informed product changes and new resources.
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) September 26, 2021
The WSJ criticisms were based on these same studies.
— Matthew Cochrane (@Matt_Cochrane7) September 26, 2021
You can't write hit articles that cherry picks data.
Good reporting should look at the entire picture.
Well color me shocked to read that Facebook says a Facebook study about a Facebook property finds that said Facebook property is not a toxic cesspool for teenagers according to Facebook https://t.co/6LGhNYNPC0
— BPLewis (@BPLewis) September 27, 2021
Stop telling us what’s on the slides and just publish them so we can all read for ourselves https://t.co/VPQsEO9iTu
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) September 26, 2021
Right. Facebook has to learn that there is not trust without transparency. Make the arguments here with full release of the research. https://t.co/MExsydIvpA
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) September 26, 2021
i think this is one of the major problems i have with this rebuttal
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) September 26, 2021
either you find the research and it’s methodologies useful and instructive, or you don’t, right? isnt it flawed to slap down sample size in some areas of the report as non representative but play up others? https://t.co/6zGkxMV6Qc
Ugly Truths:
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) September 27, 2021
1) Preteens probably shouldn’t have phones, but parents give them anyway.
2) Young teens shouldn’t be on social media, but parents allow.
3) Older teens still need guidance and check-ins.
4) If you have younger users, knowing and catering to that might be safer.
"Actually Cheetos are good for you" is about the worst take Facebook could have countered with, yet here we are:https://t.co/qtt9CMaXen
— Jon Fortt (@jonfortt) September 26, 2021
This ? was from the beginning a very, unbelievably, astonishingly stupid idea! It should not be paused but terminated! #teens #instagram #Facebook https://t.co/AgzE1Kz7af
— Konstantinos Komaitis/Κωνσταντίνος Κωμαϊτης, PhD (@kkomaitis) September 27, 2021
Why doesn’t Facebook just publish the frickin research? https://t.co/iW7teCT5Q2
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) September 27, 2021
We’re pausing “Instagram Kids.” This was a tough decision. I still think building this experience is the right thing to do, but we want to take more time to speak with parents and experts working out how to get this right. pic.twitter.com/gMbPjft0CW
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
I’d love to see corresponding research from Twitter, TikTok or Reddit from users as to if they felt better, worse or neutral about their lives after using the service.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) September 26, 2021
Without that baseline it’s hard to reason about if these results typical or unusual. https://t.co/hKFUi4NSzS
WSJ: *Holds up three rotten cherries* Facebook has been hiding rotten fruit on its orchard
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 27, 2021
FB: The WSJ is clearly cherry-picking here! This is what our orchard really looks like *Holds up six ripe cherries while hiding the rest of orchard* https://t.co/OxtWGoGDtB
We really need independent and transparent research into social media so we're not deciding if social media is good actually based on selective disclosure by two of the most powerful corporations in the world of what 40 teenage girls may or may not have said https://t.co/UD6skvfPN5
— evelyn douek (@evelyndouek) September 26, 2021
If that was the overwhelming conclusion of the research, why’d it take Facebook 2 weeks of PR hell to write this blog? Why don’t they just release the original research report? https://t.co/S0MUpPa99J
— Preston Maddock (@PrestonMaddock) September 27, 2021
Instagram has "paused" work on the Instagram Kids app it was building https://t.co/FybadJOTPb
— Sam Shead (@Sam_L_Shead) September 27, 2021
The best thing about a version of Instagram for preteens is that it acknowledged the reality that kids under 13 use Instagram already.
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) September 27, 2021
The worst thing was that Instagram for kids came from Facebook. "There's a high cost to a bad reputation," as Uber's CEO once said. https://t.co/0NyCvRzMwy
While we stand by the need to develop this experience, we’ve decided to pause to give us time to work with parents, experts, policymakers and regulators, to listen to their concerns, and to demonstrate the value and importance of this project for younger teens online today.
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
We're sharing these decks with Congress in advance of the hearing this week and we’re evaluating how we can release it to the public at some point.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) September 26, 2021
What? You mean the truth might be nuanced on a complex issue and not black and white? $FB https://t.co/K9ehFshTtv
— Matthew Cochrane (@Matt_Cochrane7) September 26, 2021
Huge opportunity for Twitter for Kids https://t.co/x05XbFoIbP
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) September 27, 2021
Oh good grief, Google. Are you kidding me? This can’t be new and I know you’re more advanced than to allow Facebook PR’s “newsroom” to count as “news.” I’d like to know how this happened. @richardgingras @dannysullivan https://t.co/9hht65xfd8
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 27, 2021
And doing so in an environment where you can’t trust parents to properly enforce boundaries (although maybe they would with better tooling) or without a PRC-like model of showing ID to get online accounts.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) September 27, 2021
Coming out punching. It would be interesting to see the full reports - FB says selective quotation and shows the actual slides, but not the full PDF… https://t.co/dm4h6i6j0Y
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) September 26, 2021
Lawmakers respond:
— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) September 27, 2021
"A ‘pause’ is insufficient, however. Facebook has completely forfeited the benefit of the doubt when it comes to protecting young people online and it must completely abandon this project,”@SenMarkey @USRepKCastor @SenBlumenthal @RepLoriTrahan https://t.co/etKmFoSKwM
Just saw that the head of Instagram has "married up" in his bio, suddenly it makes sense why the platform has Pivoted to Insecurity.
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) September 27, 2021
Facebook is heeding our calls to stop plowing ahead with plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids. But a "pause" is insufficient. Facebook must completely abandon this project. https://t.co/CA6ikJHxOH
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) September 27, 2021
Tristan Harris on Real Time with Bill Maher, discussing the Facebook Files reporting from WSJ: “This is a Cambridge Analytica-sized moment with these WSJ releases” -> So a wholly inflated narrative about something totally inconsequential?
— Eric Seufert (@eric_seufert) September 26, 2021
It might be a good idea for Facebook to post the full reports that it says the WSJ misinterpreted, with annotations to explain all the shorthand and caveats. Then we could make our own minds up.
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) September 26, 2021
When @CraigSilverman and I broke that Facebook was building Instagram for Kids in March, it was clear how the company had given little thought to how it was going to be developed. Six months later the company is pausing that project amid more scrutiny.https://t.co/7bs4tJgKqH
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) September 27, 2021
this doesn't have hardly anything to do with the news here...but i'm interested in the video aesthetic (which i see in documentaries now) of starting the confessional with the person sitting down https://t.co/ToTmQ7PnFm
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) September 27, 2021
Translation
— Alex Barredo ? (@somospostpc) September 26, 2021
"what the WSJ published was so wrong it took a team of highly experienced crisis managers and facebook executives to come up with these empty words and, still, zero proof against what the WSJ reported"
ok https://t.co/vJKJdNpvVd
I have to believe parents would prefer the option for their children to use an age-appropriate version of Instagram - that gives them oversight - than the alternative. But I’m not here to downplay their concerns, we have to get this right.
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
Facebook announces plans for controversial project. Project faces intense scrutiny from policymakers. Facebook halts project temporarily.
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) September 27, 2021
The circle of life for FB products pic.twitter.com/pElH15kfer
Instagram for kids. There I built it for you. pic.twitter.com/Hfcgepa9lu
— Dave Girouard (@davegirouard) September 27, 2021
The irony of calling the WSJ’s set of internal FB docs ‘a new Cambridge Analytica’ moment is that CA was, in the end, nonsense - a hoax. None of the things people worried about had happened, but the idea it might have been true changed people’s attitudes…
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) September 26, 2021
I would say that sentences like “Body image was the only area where teen girls who reported struggling with the issue said Instagram made it worse as compared to the other 11 areas” are inadvisable but truthfully it seems like none of this shit matters https://t.co/ZaL0uYe3wL
— noah kulwin (@nkulw) September 26, 2021
FB spox suggests that the slides will be released at some point, but why wasn't it with this blog post? This just gives people more to be suspicious about. https://t.co/ZSuLjpLFGK
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) September 27, 2021
Facebook just published a blog post that argues its research shows that IG is not as bad for teen girls as WSJ reported last week. They offered up this research slide, which is the same slide it claims WSJ cited in its piece https://t.co/2CGNfwXEKZ pic.twitter.com/PIyKYPjoPd
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) September 26, 2021
Also they knew the WSJ stories were coming for weeks (months?) and the best they have is…an unconvincing blog post a full week after publication?
— Kevin Draper (@kevinmdraper) September 26, 2021
Yes, this is the very slide the Journal quoted. If it's unrecognizable, maybe it's because the Journal didn't note that in 11 of 12 areas more teenage girls who said they struggled with that issue also said that Instagram made those difficult times better rather than worse.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) September 26, 2021
Instagram head @mosseri just announced Facebook is stopping work on Instagram Kids
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) September 27, 2021
It's something child safety groups have been demanding for monthshttps://t.co/JDYm172uTl
Mark Zuckerberg has known for years that Instagram was harmful to teenaged women. But it a media expose of leaked documents for him to trot out one of his bootlickers to announce plans to roll out Instagram for kids would be halted https://t.co/ydt0xpBs85
— Borzou Daragahi ?? (@borzou) September 27, 2021
wait @mosseri you were seriously building an Instagram for 10 year old girls?
— Sara Mauskopf (@sm) September 27, 2021
Do you have daughters? Do you have any mothers of ~10 year old girls on your team? https://t.co/r2ZWzY7eMA
We're pausing "Smokin' Joe Camel and His Smooth Flavors." This was a tough decision. I still think posing Joe Camel in a backwards hat while driving a racecar enjoying the smooth, smooth flavor of a Camel cigarette was the right thing to do https://t.co/wZ30YPHEQ1
— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) September 27, 2021
Releasing the research will most likely result in one of two outcomes: either confirming the worst suspicions about impact of Instagram on teens or confirming the worst suspicions about the quality of FB’s research.
— Roger McNamee (@Moonalice) September 27, 2021
As @mosseri just announced, we are:
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) September 27, 2021
1. Pausing the development of "Instagram Kids"
2. Continuing to build opt-in parental supervision tools
3. Maintaining a focus on teen safetyhttps://t.co/zMCDjAfl47
Interesting that Facebook's PR blog shows up in the first Google News panel pic.twitter.com/BFde4CyT6S
— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) September 27, 2021
For a second I got my hopes up and thought Facebook might actually be sharing its raw research on Insta and teens — in full — but alas… https://t.co/c81uaWFp3f
— Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) September 26, 2021
A lot of the public policy challenge here is balancing caring about:
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) September 27, 2021
1) Passive harms to kids using screens
2) Active but non-criminal harms, like teen bullying, “Thinstagram” and overall crappy influencer culture
3) Active, adversarial and criminal harms (grooming, sextortion)
Excited to see how Facebook will square the "actually, our research shows that Instagram is good for teens" message with this announcement
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) September 27, 2021
I can say this because we are on a group chat and he knows it to be true- my first thought was exactly the same as Ryan. Facebook releasing the research on teens and Instagram would be infinitely more convincing/impactful than this blog post. https://t.co/nqHVUJYbMZ
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) September 26, 2021
You can't expects teenagers or even pre-teens to not have an online presence when platforms have deliberately placed themselves as arbiters of social life. It's basically like telling them that they're prohibited from being part of broader society https://t.co/M96LNxEKJm
— HK (@HKesvani) September 27, 2021
"Critics of “Instagram Kids” will see this as an acknowledgement that the project is a bad idea. That’s not the case."https://t.co/32MoBqEoCy
— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) September 27, 2021
Late last week @georgia_wells and I told Instagram we had something coming on this subject.
The blog post is also fundamentally in conflict over the research. Facebook says that actually the research shows that 11/12 metrics showed that Instagram was good for teens. But later down it suggests the results are unreliable.
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) September 26, 2021
Well... which is it? pic.twitter.com/7Goum5xgHG
We’re pausing “Instagram Kids”, although we believe building it is the right thing to do. More here: https://t.co/bwCyUn97So
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
we live in such sinister times https://t.co/4h8gdXZVzc
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) September 27, 2021
Last night FB attempted a point-by-point analysis of why it thinks WSJ was wrong about Instagram harming teen girls.https://t.co/zXD9fyESKX
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) September 27, 2021
This morning it "paused" Instagram kids over concerns raised in WSJ series.https://t.co/9j3z6ghxcS
Instagram has paused this but the Teen version of its app seems like it will very much be a thing in the future, despite its own findings that “we make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.” https://t.co/1XDQxnuTqI
— Clare Malone (@ClareMalone) September 27, 2021
This may be true but should you really put that much credence in a study done by Instagram on itself
— Billy Duberstein (@BDubes82) September 26, 2021
Facebook has zero moral compass, zero ethics. They respond only to bad press, which affects the money. https://t.co/bEs8ZcHYJ1
— Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan) September 27, 2021
Medellín Cartel pausing effort to make crack for kids. https://t.co/eSNuZBABRa
— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) September 27, 2021
A lot of reasonable criticism to make here about transparency, etc. But I think what this also shows is that it’s very hard to measure and make sense of how social media impacts society. It’s obviously a mixed bag, because these sites have swallowed up so many cultural functions https://t.co/Iz82Xkb7fK
— Louise Matsakis (@lmatsakis) September 27, 2021
Facebook begins research effort on technology that could make slide decks available to the public https://t.co/dL8VjioAbQ
— Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) September 27, 2021
“I still firmly believe that it’s a good thing to build a version of Instagram that’s designed to be safe for tweens.” - Adam @Mosseri, head of Instagram pic.twitter.com/y2am8mbPi8
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 27, 2021
I think this is probably going to stretch the definition of "pause."https://t.co/2IEJnDrl6J
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) September 27, 2021
So while it probably isn't impossible to build an 'IG Kids' version that Tweens truly prefer, will be a very challenging endeavor. Gotta crack the finsta issue while not chilling 13+ finstas. Glad the IG team, which is the best in the biz, is taking the time to figure this out.
— Samidh (@samidh) September 27, 2021
Reminder that last week's @TechmemePodcast Experience had a robust discussion about these and related topics with @justinhendrix @AuthorPMBarrett and @EmilyTav and research on Facebook you may have missed: https://t.co/eA947iXdTm https://t.co/VI7MmmiJWL
— Chris Messina (messina.eth) ⭕️ (@chrismessina) September 27, 2021
Facebook seems to want to go on the offensive on Thursday ahead of their Senate Judiciary hearing on this subject. But there are parents and teens who are asking for answers and they deserve to know what the full research shows. /4
— Zamaan Qureshi (@zamaan_qureshi) September 27, 2021
Inbox: Four of Congress's biggest Democratic kids' privacy advocates say Facebook pausing plans for Instagram Kids is "insufficient" pic.twitter.com/grHHLi1Y3s
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) September 27, 2021
facebook goes on the offensive against the WSJ report on Instagram and teens research https://t.co/9L0Dflxc1w
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) September 26, 2021
Facebook brags that only 1 out of every 100 teens has had suicidal thoughts because of Instagram.https://t.co/gjgwabRU7F pic.twitter.com/L7UoJSDMCW
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) September 27, 2021
I asked Facebook if there’s a way to view the research. Spox: “We’re sharing these decks with Congress in advance of the hearing this week and we’re evaluating how we can release it to the public at some point.” https://t.co/kvvOY1PMLj
— Queenie Wong (@QWongSJ) September 27, 2021
We’ll continue all the work we do to keep teens safe. We’ve spent a lot of time on bullying, social comparison, and age-appropriate features like default private accounts for u18s. But we’re doing more, like building new features like “Nudges” and “Take a Break”. More to come.
— Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) September 27, 2021
I remember in the 1990s, a lot of people were worried that airbrushing photos in teen magazines would give girls unrealistic expectations about their bodies.
— Joan Donovan, ? (@BostonJoan) September 26, 2021
Girls were told in high school that we had to work on our self-esteem.
The magazines kept printing such horror shows. https://t.co/3c58fmx9Oy
former facebook civic integrity lead ? https://t.co/SzWHAM57Dj
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 27, 2021
Is it just me, or is their PR purposely written to be difficult to actually parse their message. They at one point talk about how the WSJ is basing on a super small N (<50) so their results are not significant. Then claim the same study shows they are doing good.
— Dan Sandler (@Danielsand) September 26, 2021
I'm surprised FB didn't double down and continue making Instagram for kids after spending weeks defending itself over the WSJ series the way it has. https://t.co/mrGVAqY8z5
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) September 27, 2021
Seems to be the Bill Barr strategy. Release an out of context and deceptive summary ahead of time to plant your headlines then release the details once public no longer knows the difference. https://t.co/1of11Z0I9z
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 27, 2021
There is no "Facebook research" which can be believed. It's a fundamentally unethical firm with a history of fraud, as I detailed here: https://t.co/agz8VJyeOw
— Dave Lauer (@dlauer) September 27, 2021
The only reasonable approach would be to release the data. & as a monopolist, that should be a regulatory requirement. https://t.co/BeImgNzwvI
Local drug dealer halts development on lower dose version meant to introduce children to the product. https://t.co/NuR89Bq3PB
— The Rational Walk (@rationalwalk) September 27, 2021
I love that Facebook will tell you “we have the smartest people in the world doing all kinds of sophisticated research into our effects on things” and then when someone reports that research demonstrates bad effects Facebook will say “our N was small this is meaningless.” pic.twitter.com/YjRE31ELEZ
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) September 26, 2021
Thinking a bit today about former FB employees, including @YaelEisenstat and @szhang_ds, who publicly criticized the company and got accused of grandstanding. Regardless of their seniority or tenure, everything the @WSJ team has written about FB is compatible with what they said.
— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) September 25, 2021
Facebook is slated to testify before the Senate this week, where many lawmakers have called on it to abandon Instagram Kids altogether https://t.co/hhCkSUs9NO
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) September 27, 2021
I'd find blog posts like this much more persuasive if they were co-authored by the individual researchers who actually did the analysis. That would be a signal that they are willing to stand behind the comms team's characterization of their work. https://t.co/2sO0UqedDQ
— Samidh (@samidh) September 27, 2021
Ahead of a hearing this week on Instagram harms on youth. https://t.co/etKmFoSKwM
— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) September 27, 2021
“If anybody leaves using Instagram feeling worse about themselves, that’s an important issue that we need to take seriously and that we need to figure out how to address.” -Adam @Mosseri, head of Instagram, on body image issues for teens pic.twitter.com/2X3tUTpDBl
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 27, 2021
When you have a documented history of lying and you don't show the data behind your self-serving claims, don't expect to be trusted. https://t.co/lIoz67mTzx
— Sean Robinson (@seanrobinson1e4) September 26, 2021
Pausing Instagram kids is not enough. They need to abolish the program completely.
— Rep. Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) September 27, 2021
Facebook knows it is toxic for our kids, they simply don’t care. https://t.co/UVqFiar6TU
This is the least @instagram and @Facebook can do. Now they need to release the full results of their internal research showing @instagram harms teenagers https://t.co/GaMmqNlm9A
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 27, 2021
Everybody ragging on “X for Kids” should propose their ideas. Parents letting 11yos lie about their age and join services with adults is a pretty bad status quo.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) September 27, 2021
Question isn't whether Instagram is a net positive - lots of problematic things are net positive - it's why 10s of millions of teenagers find it makes them feel worse https://t.co/3a93R2rbtJ pic.twitter.com/N8l7vynLkl
— James Titcomb (@jamestitcomb) September 27, 2021
Definitely curious why Facebook has restricted internal access to this research given that it's so positive for the company. https://t.co/8S73jfdJH1
— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) September 26, 2021
? Facebook pausing Instagram Kids, per new blog post authored by @mosseri
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) September 27, 2021
- “We believe building “Instagram Kids” is the right thing to do, but we’re pausing the work.” https://t.co/ZQb7KaArOy
Mosseri seems to frame this as a future with only two options: one where kids and teens use the existing Insta which has proven not great for their mental health and safety OR one where they use a new Insta “kids” version. https://t.co/5hwuRUuj5Z
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) September 27, 2021
Hey, look everybody: Facebook does corporate gaslighting!
— Scott Monty (@ScottMonty) September 27, 2021
Imagine how much we’d respect or trust them if they acknowledged what we all know. https://t.co/wrGj2ciK3y
An incredibly interesting slide from @instagram. Suggests just focusing JUST on body image is incomplete. For instance, more teen girls said Instagram helped with eating issues than hurt and a very large percentage said it helped with sadness, anxiety, loneliness and even sleep. pic.twitter.com/7wu8toftGs
— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) September 27, 2021
Here is a slide the WSJ did not publish, which shows that Instagram helps many teens who are struggling with some of the hardest issues they experience. The one exception was body image. pic.twitter.com/u7svOKaIR4
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) September 26, 2021
1) good call 2) issue wasn’t whether product was needed but whether FB can be trusted to operate it (it can’t, this is proven), 3) one link in @mosseri post to ongoing attempts to discredit WSJ reconfirms spineless amateur hour in failing to rebuild trust. https://t.co/3G4BCm1cwl
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 27, 2021
Putting aside the particulars of this dispute between @Facebook & @WSJ, what is distressing here is that the @Facebook response isn't "of course, we have a lot more & better research on this important topic than a 40 person focus group & two modest sized surveys" https://t.co/ztB3r5mu3O
— David Lazer (@davidlazer) September 27, 2021
We should charge Facebook under RICO.
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) September 25, 2021
I'm so laid back that I'll harvest your kids later https://t.co/L0iA2iRfvi
— Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) September 27, 2021
I would just like to say that I told them not to do this THREE YEARS AGO when consulted. https://t.co/NISwpQkKJd
— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) September 27, 2021
Instagram Kids put on ice after backlash from lawmakers and child safety groups (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/VEdvF6gfFF
— TNW (@thenextweb) September 27, 2021
Please don't tell me that ANYONE was gonna trust Zuck with our kids?https://t.co/lDx1igTuaq
— Brian Hjelle, virologist (@hjelle_brian) September 27, 2021
Facebook says it's pausing effort to build Instagram for kids https://t.co/yQfGM9fBpN
— Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) September 27, 2021
I'm encouraged to see @Facebook pausing development of Instagram for Kids and pledging to do more to empower parents. Its a shame it only took this important step after leaked internal studies showed the company knew its products were harmful to teens. https://t.co/gXoCEGacWg
— Gus Bilirakis (@RepGusBilirakis) September 27, 2021
.@Facebook is putting ‘Instagram Kids’ on pause after internal docs showed the damage that @instagram has had on the mental health of teens. A good step, but tech companies need to be much more transparent about how their products affect our children.https://t.co/KJGQhjDQiC
— U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (@boblatta) September 27, 2021
Facebook says it's pausing effort to build Instagram for kids https://t.co/HwAzIUT1Bc
— CNBC (@CNBC) September 27, 2021
Facebook pauses Instagram for Kids (ie under 13). But will probably come back to it soon enough. Those are future adult users to profile and make money off, after all. https://t.co/YuompmiiGE
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) September 27, 2021
Facebook suspends plan to launch Instagram Kids app as critics circle https://t.co/1WaziDJ974 pic.twitter.com/pqWDjkZAam
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) September 27, 2021
Facebook says Instagram makes teen girls feel better after damning report https://t.co/uadJR8s09P pic.twitter.com/YArpTNsGuQ
— New York Post (@nypost) September 27, 2021
Instagram Kids put on ice after backlash from lawmakers and child safety groups (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/45fSabVnD3
— TNW (@thenextweb) September 28, 2021
Things are not quite a “Teenage Dream” at Instagram, as it kicked off the work week by putting its Instagram Kids stand-alone application on hold and issuing its rebuttal to a damning story earlier this month in The Wall Street Journal.https://t.co/LuKURN3k2K
— Adweek (@Adweek) September 28, 2021