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Consumer teams and baby improvement specialists petition Facebook to drop Instagram for youths plan

A coalition of 35 consumer advocacy teams along side 64 specialists in baby improvement have co-signed a letter to Facebook asking the company to reconsider its plans to release a fashion of Instagram for kids beneath the age of 13, which Facebook has showed to be in improvement. In the letter, t…
A coalition of 35 consumer advocacy groups along with 64 experts in child development have co-signed a letter to Facebook asking the company to reconsider its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, which Facebook has confirmed to be in development. In the letter, t…

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