Facebook has temporarily stopped development on Instagram for kids. The company announced this morning this morning in a blog post that it will take time to consult with parents, experts and ...

Pavni Diwanji is leaving his post as VP of youth at Meta, the company has confirmed. Diwanji oversaw the creation of Meta’s Instagram for Kids app, a project the company has halted indefinitely ...

Instagram paused its plans to create a version of the photo-and-video sharing app for people under 13 but hasn't permanently ended the project. Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing ...

Instagram is an online playground full of hazards -- teens know it, parents know it and the platform's parent company Meta knows it. On Tuesday, Meta announced sweeping safety updates designed to keep ...

The Meta executive in charge of the social media giant’s youth initiatives — including its controversial “Instagram for Kids” — is leaving the company. Pavni Diwanji, the company’s vice president of ...

Adam Mosseri was in the hot seat Wednesday afternoon. Lawmakers on Wednesday grilled Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, in a wide-ranging hearing on the potential harms of social media use for young ...

More than five dozen clergy members and other religious leaders want Instagram to permanently abandon controversial plans to set up a children’s version of the app, the latest voices in a growing ...

Instagram has a new idea to determine children’s ages online: Direct them to videotape themselves and upload the content, then deploy facial scanning technology. The Meta-owned social platform is ...

Instagram’s controversial new “Map” feature carries “significant public safety and data privacy concerns” that could endanger kids, a bipartisan group of 37 state attorneys general warned in a letter ...

Meta is reimagining Instagram for teens as a safe place for them to interact with friends and explore their interests. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...