(Reuters) – Facebook proprietor Meta Platforms Inc will enable mother and father to trace how a lot time their kids are spending on Instagram and can quickly roll out parental supervision options on Quest digital actuality headsets, the corporate mentioned on Wednesday.
The new parental controls are a part of Meta’s promise to guard kids utilizing its social media apps, after a whistleblower leaked inside paperwork that confirmed the corporate was conscious that Instagram brought about physique picture issues for some teenage women.
The uproar ensuing from the leaked paperwork led to Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, testifying earlier than Congress in December, the place he was grilled about kids’s security on-line.
The Instagram supervision tools will probably be obtainable within the United States starting Wednesday and can roll out globally over the approaching months, Meta mentioned.
Parents will have the ability to view what accounts their kids observe and might set deadlines for a way lengthy their children spend on the app.
In May, Meta will launch a dashboard that features supervision tools for its Quest headsets and can mechanically block teenagers from downloading age-inappropriate apps on Quest.
Parental supervision on each Instagram and Quest would require consent from teenagers, Meta mentioned in a weblog put up https://about.fb.com/information/2022/03/parental-supervision-tools-instagram-vr.
The firm added it plans to finally enable mother and father to supervise their children’ actions throughout all of Meta’s providers from one central place.
(Reporting by Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
