Meta in talks with Seoul on social media restrictions for children
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With the U.S. deciding to restrict Instagram and Facebook usage time for youths under the age of 18, could similar measures be implemented in Korea? Meta, which reached an agreement with U.S. state governments to limit youth Facebook and Instagram usage, has reportedly decided to hold related discussions with the Korean government.
Meta is currently consulting with the Korean government regarding restrictions on youth social media usage time. It is reviewing the two-hour daily usage limit and late-night blocking measures implemented in the United States, and plans to strengthen protection modes by extending the youth account features applied to Instagram and Facebook to Threads.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kwon Ha-young = Meta will introduce a feature to monitor youth accounts on its text-based social media platform, Thread, starting next week.
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(ATTN: ADDS Meta official's comments in paras 4, 6) SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Yonhap) -- Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Thursday it is in talks with the South Korean government on measures to limit children's use of social media. Philip Chua, Meta's Asia-Pacific general manager for product public policy, made the […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!
[Digital Daily Reporter Chae Seong-oh] Suggestions have been made that rather than unconditionally restricting adolescents' use of social media (SNS), parents and children should create rules together and cultivate the ability to regulate their usage themselves. It was pointed out that banning SNS or unilaterally monitoring it could drive usage underground, making it difficult to identify dangerous situations. At the Meta 'Screen Smart Roundtab…
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