Instagram Kids, a “Instagram experience” for children under the age of 13, has been put on hold.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri stated that Facebook would utilize the opportunity to listen to “parents, professionals, policymakers, and regulators.”
It comes after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published secret internal data claiming that Instagram was “toxic for teen girls.”
However, Facebook’s head of research, Pratiti Raychoudhury, called this accusation “simply not correct” in a recent blog post.
Users must be at least 13 years old to make an account on Instagram, yet many children under the age of 13 use the platform nevertheless.
Instagram Kids, according to BBC News, will be a “practical answer to the recurring industry problem of kids lying about their age to use apps” and will allow children to connect with family and friends in an “age-appropriate fashion.”
