Bart Manson @MetalStack

Today @Meta unleashed the most aggressive new policy set to keep kids safe on social media that we’ve seen in a very long time. Is it for real? Yes, I believe it is. Let me tell you my experience with Meta to explain why I believe that and then I’ll explain the changes. As many of you know, I’ve been working with Meta for the past year on removing political bias from their AI products. I’m going to be real with you: When I took this on my expectations were that I’d be treated like a hostile force on enemy turf. I was wrong. The team had people with my politics AND people with politics on the left. We all had a shared goal and directive though. The results speak loudly. We focused on fairness + facts and now, Meta’s AI tests as the least politically biased among all the frontier AI models. During that time, I raised one other issue to Meta: The harm done to kids online. This is something my wife and I have always cared deeply about and I had to speak up about this given the chance to have a positive impact. Many on the team at Meta have kids and I saw firsthand, a desire to get this right AN to put parents in the drivers seat again. I believe from my interactions with them that they desperately want to get this right not just for your kids or my kids but for their own kids. So here’s the changes but after you read this, I have one ask: Demand that @tiktok_us @YouTube and @Snapchat adopt similar policies. For starters, Meta will pay a record $17.6 Billion across 48 states to settle social media addiction and harm cases. Facebook and Instagram will enforce a 2 hour daily limit on IG & FB for minors. Why? Because healthy kids need time off of their screens living in the real world, spending time with their family and having the same fun we all used to have as kids. Parental controls are being updated to be more user friendly and useful, so YOU can set limits on what’s allowed and not allowed. Parents have long wanted to be able to turn off algorithmic feeds and now they’ll be able to. That alone is HUGE. Parents: Make sure to use these. They’ll implement "productive pauses" to have kids pause to go do something else if they’ve been scrolling for 15 minutes straight. This happens again at the 60 and 90 minute marks. There will be nighttime blocks stopping kids from using the apps from midnight to 6AM. Healthy kids need sleep, not late night scrolling. Kids won’t receive push notifications during the school hours of 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Meta is deploying advanced age assurance measures to verify the ages of young users to comply with age restrictions. Their apps will have more restrictions on content that promotes eating disorders & self-harm. Youth accounts will now limit the use of beauty filters and visible like counts because both have been linked to poor mental health for teens. They’ll be defaulting teens into private accounts and will deploy technology to restrict suspicious adults from contacting them. Meta will also work to make it harder for pervy adults to find, follow, or interact with teens. These new features will be audited regularly by an independent auditor. It’s important to criticize big tech when they get it wrong but it’s equally important to point out when they’re getting it right. Meta is at least trying to enact meaningful, industry wide change. It’s my hope that TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube will follow their lead. And before anyone asks, no they did not pay me to write this. Working with people there who really cared about these issues is why I’m sharing this. I genuinely think these moves will get more teens outside, more teens doing normal teenager things, less teens with an unhealthy body image, less teens in contact with predators online and better mental health for teen users. If TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube decline to make these changes, they should explain why they won’t. I think the potential answers to that would be telling. CC: @nealmohan @evanspiegel @adampresser

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