Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook is tabling “Instagram Kids” for now — but at the same time, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, says that launching an app for kids under 13 is still “the right thing to do.”News of the Instagram Kids project came earlier this year, and it was swiftly bashed from several quarters.
Critics included more than 40 state attorneys general who raised concerns including research showing social media can be harmful to the emotional and mental well-being of children.Mosseri, in a blog post Monday, said critics of “Instagram Kids” will see the pausing of the app’s development “as an acknowledgement that the project is a bad idea.
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