Please Audit Your Kids' Social Media

[FINate]

Yet another concerning peak behind the social media curtain: His Job Was to Make Instagram Safe for Teens. His 14-Year-Old Showed Him What the App Was Really Like. (https://archive.ph/AcPFy)

The experience of young users on Meta’s Instagram—where Bejar had spent the previous two years working as a consultant—was especially acute. In a subsequent email to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, one statistic stood out: One in eight users under the age of 16 said they experienced unwanted sexual advances on the platform over the previous seven days.

For Bejar, that finding was hardly a surprise. His daughter and her friends had been receiving unsolicited penis pictures and other forms of harassment on the platform since the age of 14, he wrote, and Meta’s systems generally ignored their reports—or responded by saying that the harassment didn’t violate platform rules.

Assuming this is somewhat accurate, I don't see how parents can meaningfully monitor what going on with their kids' accounts.

[GuitarStv]

Social Media - "A strange game.  The only winning move is not to play."

[SmashYourSmartPhone]

Literal genocidal content in Myanmar, calling other groups of people not even human, that it wasn't murder because they were just animals, that they all needed to be killed based on false pretenses, etc, mostly did not "violate Meta's community standards," as well documented in a four part blog post series available here: https://erinkissane.com/archives

One can hardly expect penis pictures in PMs to minors to violate their standards, given that.

About the only thing one can expect to violate their standards are things that are critical of Meta, as that might interfere with their quarterly profits.