Explained | Why Facebook is holding off on kids’ Instagram
The Hindu
Facebook’s decision to merely pause the project suggests it still plans to expose a much younger audience to Instagram, its well-documented harms and possibly the user profiling that feeds Facebook’s targeted ad machine.
Bowing — perhaps only for a moment — to , Facebook said Monday it will “pause” its work on a kids' version of its photo and video-oriented Instagram app.
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But what’s not yet clear is just how seriously Facebook is taking the concerns of experts and parents. suggests it still plans to expose a much younger audience to Instagram, its well-documented harms and possibly the user profiling that feeds Facebook’s targeted ad machine. That ad machine, of course, has made the company one of the most profitable on the planet.
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