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AGs blast Instagram's kids app

44 attorneys general hate Instagram Youth. Should they?

Casey Newton
May 11, 2021
Photo illustration of the Instagram app icon. Alexander Shavot / Unsplash
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Today let’s talk about whether there should be an Instagram for children.

Last month, BuzzFeed reported that Facebook had begun to explore building a separate version of Instagram for children under the age of 13. (No code has yet been written.) Instagram’s terms prohibit pre-teens from using the service, but in practice milli…

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